Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:59:10 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: taow@alcor.concordia.ca
Cc: "Steven Winikoff" <smw@alcor.concordia.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       "Tao Wang" <taow@alcor.concordia.ca>,
       "Gillian Roper" <groper@alcor.concordia.ca>,
       "Sylvain Robitaille" <syl@alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:44:05 -0500 (EST)
taow@alcor.concordia.ca wrote:

> > You will *probably* get stable 16GB with the vendor tuned enterprise
> > kernels (RHEL, CentOS etc),
> 
> That's sounds "a little" relief. Thesis 1,2,3 has 16GB memory. Aries has 12G.

If you can run a 64bit kernel, it will save you an inordinate amount of
pain on a box with > 4GB of RAM. The fact > 4GB is possible on such a box
in 32bit doesn't make it a good idea.

Alan
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