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From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:00:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E0D1C2.8080703@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Dvusr-00048r-00@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>

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Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <200507201416.36155.naber@inl.nl> you wrote:
> 
>>The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a 
>>32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff 
>>yet)
> 
> 
> You cant have 16GB of Memory with 32bit CPUs.

PAE

CONFIG_HIGMEM64G

Supports a 36bit address space, which Xeons do support.

That doesn't mean a program can access it, you still
have the same old limitations per process.

// Stefan
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-22 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-20 12:16 a 15 GB file on tmpfs Bastiaan Naber
2005-07-20 13:20 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-20 13:31   ` Antonio Vargas
2005-07-20 13:35   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2005-07-20 14:44     ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-20 15:23       ` Antonio Vargas
2005-07-21  2:13         ` Jim Nance
2005-07-20 15:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-21  6:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-07-21  8:42 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-21  9:12   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-21  9:39     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-22 10:36 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-22 11:00   ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2005-07-22 16:25     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-22 21:10       ` Stefan Smietanowski
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2005-07-21 15:25 Andrew Burgess
2005-07-22  9:39 Cabaniols, Sebastien
2005-07-22 10:38 linux

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