Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 17:43:01 EST


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:16:43AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Nobody knows how far it will go. It's fairly safe to say that, at this
> rate, Linux will keep up with whatever hardware anyone produces.
> Unless, of course, someone gets even more perverse than PAE. :)

32-bit kernels on 64-bit machines with RAM capacities larger than 64GB
would seem to raise issues far more severe than i386 PAE, but to date
little (if any) interest has been expressed in using Linux in such
scenarios.

-- wli
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