Re: Configurable larger physical memory

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
18 Apr 1999 10:50:02 +0200


Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> To make it more difficult for M$ paid testers not to tune the amount of
> physical memory Linux uses, I added a kernel configure for that (Intel
> arch only). You can select one, two, three, or almost four GB of physical
> memory (which leaves 192M for the app - should be sufficient for a
> file/web server). It also updates vmlinux.lds correctly.

Sometime in 2.1.x there was a similar option, but it was removed
again because too many people screwed it up.

-Andi

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