FC4 - Does Fedora recognizes memory?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 2 03:44:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:41:19AM +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
 
 > As I know 4G memory is default for kenerl. If the memory is larger
 > that 4G it need to recompile.

Not true. The SMP kernel supports (theoretically) up to 64GB.
In practice after 8->16GB, you really want to be thinking of
moving to a 64bit system.  A few years ago, making stupid amounts
of memory work on 32 bit made sense, now.. not so much.

		Dave




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