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Bug#383350: marked as done (base-installer: support selection of 686-bigmem kernel if >3GB RAM)

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Package: base-installer
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if the installer would automatically select the new 
686-bigmem flavor for systems with more than 3GB internal memory.

The 3GB limit was suggested by Frederik Schueler.

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Turns out this is not really feasible.

[13:04:02] <fjp> waldi: From which RAM size is -bigmem useful? fs 
suggested 3GB a while back.
[13:05:56] <waldi> 3.5
[13:06:50] <fjp> Does that mean > 3500000 kB in /proc/meminfo?
[13:09:32] <waldi> no
[13:10:01] <fjp> Then what?
[13:10:29] <fjp> (For MemTotal: line of course.)
[13:11:17] <waldi> it means more than about 3.5GiB of memory as known by 
the bios, I don't think the kernel is able to show this
[13:12:29] <fjp> Ah, because you need the -bigmem kernel before the kernel 
knows about the extra? Hmm.
[13:12:51] <fjp> So, what is the largest size a normal 686 kernel will 
show?
[13:13:08] <waldi> dunno
[13:14:13] <waldi> i think it is something between 3.3 and 3.5 GiB, 
depending on the bios and reserved io address space
[13:14:30] <fjp> Then using a (somewhat arbitrary) limit of 3GB would 
maybe make sense? I'd guess that having a -bigmem installed for that 
won't do any harm?
[13:14:37] <waldi> no
[13:14:42] <waldi> it is about 30% slower
[13:15:14] <fjp> That's significant. OK. /me scratches -bigmem support in 
base-installer.
[13:16:06] <waldi> you want to use 64bit kernels if ever possible instead

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