On Friday 15 June 2001 19:28, Adam Shand wrote: > Hey all. > > I'm hoping for some advice here. I've just started a new job and one of > the things they want me to do is to build a linux farm/cluster for running > large simulation and regression tests. > > Some of these tests can be up to 4GB and in time they will grow larger. > I have a limited understanding of the hardware restrictions of linux and > have had a hard time finding good answers to these questions by searching > google. So my questions are: > > * In the new 2.4 kernels can a single process address more then 2Gb of > RAM? More then 4Gb of RAM? > > * Is this architecture dependent? If so what are the differences. > > * What is the hard limit for the total amount of ram usable by a 2.4 > kernel. > > If I've missed a good place to read about all this pointers would be much > appreciated as well. > > Thanks, > Adam.
I dont know about proccess wise memory usage, but the linux kernel has support for up to 64 GB of ram. (a lot) John
