...interesting, the 'free' command always showed me ~3GB physical RAM 
when I did the default i386 install (on a 64-bit machine), before I 
installed the server kernel. Of course, this is Ubuntu specific kernels 
we're talking, which don't have them enabled by default. I'm sure other 
distros probably have different kernel options enabled.


Cheers,
Jordan/Lns

jam wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009 06:15:03 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>   
>> Whoops!! Yes, only i386 server kernel is needed if you have > 3gb,
>> sorry. For many other tasks, however, such as many people logged into
>> the system at once.. maybe someone else can chime in and give some insight.
>>     
>
> This is compound broken telephone AKA rubbish
>
> A 32 bit kernel is:
> limited to 3G user space PER PROGRAM
> is limited to 896M RAM
> or 4G RAM with large mem paging
> or 64G RAM with AFAIK PAE paging
>
> Both paging schemes work best on an application needing LotsOfRam and not so 
> well on LTSP type apps (That need LotsOfRam OFTEN in different places)
>
> So 64 is better for LTSP sites
> James
>
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