[K12OSN] 64 clients off 1 server needs 6GB

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Thu May 5 03:24:19 UTC 2005


On 5/4/05, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:

> 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`

Much thanks Eric.  So I guess the new SMP kernels have huge memory
support built in. Curious though why does RHEL have a separate hugemem
kernel then?

PS My k12ltsp lab has been up for 1 year now and other teachers are
finally realizing the benefits and beginning to want the same setup. 
:)

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19




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