On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:38:27PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > Thanks everyone who replied, > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as > >> well? > > > > No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as much > > as 64 GiB of RAM. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > > in which it says: > > ,----- > | The Linux kernel supports PAE as a build option and most major > | distributions provide a PAE kernel either as the default or as an > | option. > `----- > > How can I know if the PAE support is built in my kernel? > > $ grep -i pae /boot/config* || echo no found > no found
You are looking for the HIGHMEM64 config option, and apparently the -bigmem suffixed kernel packages. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100621145452.gh9...@forelli.alcopop.org
