Re: > 1GB RAM on x86 ?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 20:18:52 +0100 (BST)

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> > I also seem to be seeing a limit on swap space of 1GB. What about
> > increasing that too?
>
> If you need that much memory, I think it is not non-sense to spend much less
> money than you give for memory chips in upgrading to a real CPU (64bit) also.
> Even on an Ultra-I you get the physical RAM limit 1TB (and another
> one for IO space) and Linux actually supports that.

Get used to 1Gb or 2Gb PC's they will be the norm for top end P6 servers.
Im sure people will be happy to run NT on them if nothing else works. Folks
are already tweaking other Unix systems to support the full 36bits on
the P6 because there are needs for it.

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