RE: Maximum Addressable RAM

["Bibbs, Christopher" <Christopher_Bibbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SGI submitted a patch to handle 4GB of RAM, but it was rejected by Linus.
There are some other groups working on it also.

Christopher Bibbs

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Williams [mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 5:58 AM
To: klug@klug.armintl.com
Subject: Re: Maximum Addressable RAM


On Sep 30,  2:57am, Mike Nicholas wrote:
> Subject: Maximum Addressable RAM
> Can anyone tell me the maximum amount of RAM that is recognized/addressed
by
> Linux?  Specifically RH 5.x...so if $$$ was not an issue, how much RAM
could
> I hammer in my box and have Linux "eat" it all up?

I believe last time I checked it was 1GB, at least on the Intel platform.
This
may increase soon as I read some corporation had volunteered to work on
raising
this limit (why do I think it was Sequent?).