Re: Max ram for linux?

Walter Mautner wrote:
Michael Heiming enlightened us alt.linux-(ab)users with:

....
The 64 GB mentioned in this thread are just the limit for x86
hardware...

Damn. Got a hp bladeserver with a dual opteron,and 4G of ram.
When starting a 2.6.17 kernel (compiled for x64) without options, it
panicks at boot, with different messages.
When I give it a "mem=4000M" it starts just fine, but has only something
like 3.5G RAM available. We would like to expand memory even more, for
running vmware server machines.
Using a 32bit linux with appropriate kernel, no problem.
I cannot find any setting in the (flashed up-to-date) bios to disable
the memory remapping(?) of this dl360p4 box .... someone a cluestick?


This message from the Dulug maillinglist may give some light and it seems they would recommend an BIOS update.

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/dulug/2005-February/016014.html


//Aho
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