On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:07 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
But when your machine has 2Gb, you've yet to go into those models. So _why_ do _you_ not recommend more than 1Gb on x86? Just as Randall, I see no reason why one should not use e.g. 2 or 4Gb with an x86 processor. The performance hit is presumably that of going to a three-level address lookup when using PAE.
My point is, and continues to be, if you need more than 1GiB of memory in Linux (2GiB in NT), you should be running Linux/x86-64 on an AMD64 processor (and not EM64T). Now some of the 3G/1G models will suffice, as long as your kernel doesn't map more than 512MiB of I/O. That's where you start to run into issues, and get forced to the 4G/4G or 64G models. So this is very much especially so on a server. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Immigration = "Representation Without Taxation" -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com