Just rememebred,
There is PSE36 as well in almost all newer processors and AFAIK Suse 8.0 kenel natively supports this and loads itself in HIMEM of 4GB
http://www.intel.com/support/performancetools/pse36/OVERVIEW.HTM
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K i r @ n G h a g wrote:
Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI
On Behalf Of Philip S Tellis Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 4:49 PM Correct me if I'm wrong, but 16GB RAM isn't even addressable on a 32bit machine. 32bit address bus == 2^32bytes of addressable memory == 4GB of addressable memory MAX. This includes RAM + Swap.
This calculation is the basic rule and you are correct with that. But this is applied only to older servers. Newer servers (or processors) support PAE (Physical Address Extension) that allows you to address upto 64GB of RAM. So that figure is possible...but still unaccepteble for the situation. See this, or just google for PAE
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/server/pae/default.mspx
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