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Re: max RAM size



On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 08:19:21AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
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| On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, François THOMAS wrote:
| 
| > Hello list
| >
| > I have upgraded the physical amount of RAM on a Potato server (r3).
| > Unfortunately, it looks like only 960M are managed by the kernel... Is there
| > a *safe* way to make my system manage all the available RAM (=> 2 Gigs) ?
| > This is a production server, and I cannot afford the risk of destroying the
| > system (I would prefer to continue using half the available memory !).
| > Any advice ?
| 
| Recompile your kernel with higmem enabled.

IIRC (which is not very probable recently) that is only necessary for
 > 4GB of RAM.

-D



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