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From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported
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on 12/31/2009 04:59 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following:
> Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> writes:
>
>> I thought CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G had to do with more than 4GB of RAM.
>> Now I can see that the associated help says it is for an amount between
>> 1 and 4GB.
>
> Depends on the "split" used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem
> 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space
> is usually not a problem.
How do you implement that? What do you mean 2GB:2GB split ?