On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:08:52PM +0000, Paul Pruett wrote: > A nominal i386 computer with only a meg of ram > without limit changes would not load it.
Neither would a stock GENERIC kernel on any architecture. The reason is that those 600+MB of table entries are allocated from kernel memory. And the kernel only gets a fraction of the physical RAM installed. You'll have to try, but I doubt you'll end up with more than half a gig of kernel memory even if you put in 4+GB of RAM. And, no, I don't know if it's possible to tune that or how ;) The opposite is obviously true, i.e. if you have less than 600MB of physical RAM, there is no way you can load 600+MB of table entries. Daniel
