[K12OSN] 64 clients off 1 server needs 6GB

[Eric Harrison]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> My school has a dual Xeon 2.8 with 4GB plus scsi drives and gigabit
> uplink to the server. It easily runs 32 clients all running Firefox
> and OOo using 3GB and ~30-40% cpu with Icewm. However, I want to pitch
> another k12ltsp lab by simply bumping the ram to up to 6GB.
>
> My problem is that I can't find the hugemem kernel in either 4.2.1 or
> 4.1.1 distro. Centos/RHEL has it so I know it exists. Is FC limited to
> 4GB on i686 arch?

In the FC3 2.6.11-1.14 kernels at least, the max memory for a 
uni-processor kernel is 4G and a multi-processor is 64G

This command will tell you if the kernel you are running 
supports 4G or 64G:

 	grep ^CONFIG_HIGHMEM /boot/config-`uname -r`

-Eric