EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?

From: William Ballard (40618.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:25:03 -0700
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    Greg Madden in <200406261122.05053.gomadtroll@gci.net>, suggested
    enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y for machines with > 960MB memory; however
    the help for this option in 2.6.7 says "if you will never run a machine
    with more than 1 Gigabyte of memory."

    It seems to suggest that for the interval [0,1024] it should be not set
    and (1024,4096] it should be set; i.e. not set at exactly 1GB. Is this
    correct?

    It's probably moot since tomorrow I will up my machine to 2GB; VMWare
    runs *fantastic* on a HT cpu with 1GB memory assigning 384MB to the VM,
    but now I'm trying some heavier duty stuff, and assign 656MB to the VM
    makes the system go chugga chugga again. 

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