...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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blog.logicalnetworking.net OpenVPN and Gnome Network Manager California digital textbook initiative moves forward My little introduction into the Linux filesystem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
