Re: Maximum RAM
On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 18:49 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 12/12/13 18:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Ethan, still HTML, really ;)?
> >
> > On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 01:42 -0500, erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com
> > wrote:
> >> Are there any command line statement(s) that will enable the system to
> >> use more than 4 GB of RAM?
> >
> > Only when you compile a 32-bit architecture kernel, then you can enable
> > it by
> >
> > echo "CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set" >> .config
> > echo "CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y" >> .config
> > make oldconfig
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> >
>
> Huh? :/
>
>
> Which distro ships a pae kernel with highmem64G *disabled* in the
> default .config?
I don't know?
He was asking for CLI statements and those above are the statements, if
you download the vanilla kernel source from kernel.org and build a
32-bit kernel, for e.g. Debian. Yes, there are other CLI statements too.
Why do so many people, with 64-bit architecture prefer 32-bit operating
systems?
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