On Tuesday February 25 2003 06:43 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
> Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB
> of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the
> kernel developers to revamp memory management.
>
> Seedkum
The linux-kernel people are constantly 'revamping' the kernel.
But in order to address memory over about 900 MB's, with a 32 bit
system, there's a substantial performance hit to be paid. Solution is
to provide a 'desktop' kernel, so that those systems don't suffer the
performance hit.
While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs
of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized kernels for
them. IIRC, the kernels were ready before the systems were. OTOH,
before you'll see 64 bit desktops systems, 512 mb of ram will still
be overkill.
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