Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752519AbZLaO70 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:59:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752449AbZLaO7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:59:25 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58077 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752393AbZLaO7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:59:25 -0500 From: Krzysztof Halasa To: Thanasis Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Dirk Heinrichs , LKML Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported References: <4B3B3043.20400@asyr.hopto.org> <200912301208.54359.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <4B3B38F2.6090006@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:59:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B3B38F2.6090006@asyr.hopto.org> (thanasis@asyr.hopto.org's message of "Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:26:42 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 18 Thanasis writes: > I thought CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G had to do with more than 4GB of RAM. > Now I can see that the associated help says it is for an amount between > 1 and 4GB. Depends on the "split" used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space is usually not a problem. x86-64 removes such limits. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/