[K12OSN] 8 GB RAM on 32-bit Edubuntu with AMD 64 processors

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Nov 27, 2007 1:40 PM, James P. Kinney III
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> Plus, the controller chip may artificially allocate a semi-dedicated
> chunk of RAM to each core further masking the PAE swap effects. With
> Opteron systems since each CPU is it's own RAM manager, the PAE issue is
> further diluted. So far what I've seen is the PAE effect is most
> pronounced where you'd expect it - on a single 32-bit CPU system with
> large RAM installed.
> >

You talk about NUMA.

This is the BEST in-depth article about memory I have seen. It was
recently written by Ulrich Drepper.

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

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