Max memory + swap

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Wed Sep 29 03:07:58 PDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:33:22AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
> 
> Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:20:02 AM, ha scritto:
> 
> ET> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
> 
> >> I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or
> >> 4 Gbytes total, is this true ?
> >> (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine)
> 
> ET> There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4
> ET> without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a
> ET> few GB swap should not be any problem.
> 
> this means swap space is not counted in 4 Gb Limit-before-PAE, right ?
> I mean, something like 2Gb physical RAM + 4 Gb of swap _without_ PAE
> should be ok ?

Yes.



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