Max memory + swap
Alessandro de Manzano
demanzano at playstos.com
Wed Sep 29 00:33:24 PDT 2004
Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:20:02 AM, ha scritto:
ET> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
>> I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or
>> 4 Gbytes total, is this true ?
>> (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine)
ET> There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4
ET> without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a
ET> few GB swap should not be any problem.
this means swap space is not counted in 4 Gb Limit-before-PAE, right ?
I mean, something like 2Gb physical RAM + 4 Gb of swap _without_ PAE
should be ok ?
>> I would avoid to tweak kernel parameters, if possible, like KVA pages
>> and similar things I don't know ;)
ET> Then don't go above 2GB RAM. To make that work I think you need to do
ET> exactly what ypu want to avoid.
ok, fair enough :))
Many thanks!
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Alessandro de Manzano
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