Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
are these options available from make menuconfig? James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains the above settings which is fine what your problem is -- .~.Might, Courage,

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread M.W. Chang
forget it. I found it. M.W. Chang wrote: are these options available from make menuconfig? James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains the above settings which is fine what your

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: are these options available from make menuconfig? Yes. I'm not aware of any options that aren't. James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Yes, but most stock kernels support up to 4GB, which is still more than 2GB this guy's using... - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Maximum Memory in Linux On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Brian Simper wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 902768 672416 230352 0 45820 193564 -/+ buffers/cache: 433032

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: At risk of suggesting the obvious, does your BIOS recognize all the memory? Some machines have built-in hardware

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
... - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Maximum Memory in Linux On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:44:51 -0700 Simper, Brian D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: # free total used free

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'stock' Redhat kernel suports no more than 1GB. SuSE kernels might support more. Redhat includes a 'bigmem' kernel which supports 16GB. kernels support up to: 1Gb, 4Gb, 64Gb depending on the kernel compile

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
wrote: Yes, but most stock kernels support up to 4GB, which is still more than 2GB this guy's using... - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Maximum Memory in Linux On Wed

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread burns
Before you go re-rolling kernels, check this out: http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=71 -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread James McDonald
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The