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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Linux (0.98 SLS) does not recogonize 20 Meg Memory Config.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074451.21651@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1il110INN92@fast.hal.COM> <1993Jan9.004334.29212@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Jan9.025829.8155@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:44:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.025829.8155@wam.umd.edu> spierce@wam.umd.edu (Stephen Pierce) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan9.004334.29212@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
- >>
- >>There are two versions of kernel, one for <= 16 MB, the other for > 16 MB.
- >>Which one are you using? You may have to recompile the kernel to use
- >>memory above 16MB.
- >
- > Why is this? What is the technical reason for the two versions? Different
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- The > 16M version allocates more memory for page tables, making less memory
- available to programs.
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- >method of accessing memory above 16? Can one run the >16MB with _less_
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- No.
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- >than 16MB in the system?
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- Yes.
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