On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: > I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem > kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was > used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone > had any experience with using it. Are there other specific > circumstances when it works best?
Kernel memory support is 800MB - 4GB and 4GB - 64GB. I'm not sure which Redhat's kernel covers, but i'd imagine that tis the higher of the two ranges. The only advantage is if you've got a large amount of memory. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
