Not in my experience:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 516516 370464 146052 96080 140104 108508
-/+ buffers/cache: 121852 394664
Swap: 498004 8728 489276
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux hm269-26876 2.2.19pre17 #1 Fri Aug 10 09:28:54 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
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Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux
> does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true?
>
> Wayne