On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:53:37PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > ... > > * 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. > > 64 vs 32 bit. Not being a kernel hacker I can't tell you which is used > where. > > > * 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. > > news://comp.os.linux.system and kernel mailing list, I guess. > > Note that 2.4 kernels die (after 14 days uptime here) with "out of > memory". I wouldn't use a 2.4 kernel for a production machine until > that is fixed. Never had that problem, though the stability of 2.4 quite differs between the various releases. Try a different release or some -ac patch.
2.4.5ac6 works fine for me. Alson