From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbTD1Qet (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261193AbTD1Qet (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:34:49 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:52934 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261190AbTD1Qes (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:34:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAD5AC1.7090003@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:45:53 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Henti Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit .. References: <20030424200524.5030a86b.bain@tcsn.co.za> <3EAD27B2.9010807@gmx.net> <20030428141023.GC4525@Wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > Realistic limit currently is ~16GB with an IA32 box. For more you need > an 64bit architecture. Let's say 32GB :) It boots just fine with 2.5.68, no additional patches. There's even half a gig of lowmem free. curly:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 32688576 kB MemFree: 32644196 kB Buffers: 3632 kB Cached: 8068 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 9420 kB Inactive: 4616 kB HighTotal: 32112640 kB HighFree: 32098240 kB LowTotal: 575936 kB LowFree: 545956 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 160 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 4596 kB Slab: 8316 kB Committed_AS: 5544 kB PageTables: 260 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 3792 kB VmallocChunk: 110888 kB -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com