Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932246AbVJ0VGI (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:06:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932257AbVJ0VGI (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:06:08 -0400 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:6056 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932246AbVJ0VGH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:06:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:06:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Vladimir Lazarenko cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB In-Reply-To: <4361408B.60903@lazarenko.net> Message-ID: References: <4361408B.60903@lazarenko.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 28 On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote: > Hello, > > Looking at the thread of Interl Dual-core and 4GB a sudden thought came to my > mind: "Hey, I'm gonna upgrade my box to 4G next week too... Would it work?" > > Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd > and kernel with SMP compiled for i686? Yes but you would only be able to malloc 3GB per process. Go with the x86_64 kernel and that goes away. we have x86_x64's with 16GB of ram. > Thanks in advance! > > Vladimir > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/