Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:38:27 +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Thanks everyone who replied,
You're welcome.
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
>>> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as
>>> well?
>>
>> No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as
>> much as 64 GiB of RAM.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
>
> in which it says:
>
> ,-----
> | The Linux kernel supports PAE as a build option and most major |
> distributions provide a PAE kernel either as the default or as an |
> option.
> `-----
>
> How can I know if the PAE support is built in my kernel?
In Debian, PAE enabled kernels are named "linux-image-*-bigmem" (note the
"bigmem").
> $ grep -i pae /boot/config* || echo no found no found
"uname -r" will tell :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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