Physical memory present on a machine

[Mike Kearey]

Nilesh Bansal wrote:
>> My understanding is that the athlon kernel variant is limited to 4G even
>> for the SMP build.
> Okay. thanks. But is there something like bigsmp version for athlon?
> We are planning to add 8GB more RAM (making it to a total of 16GB) to
> this machine.

No other choice for the athlon arch that I know of.

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>> To be able to utilise more, install the i686 kernel.
>> The i686 kernel may have a slight preformance hit running on th athlon
>> CPU.
> Any estimate how much this penalty be.
> 

According to the information I have it is a hit of up to 5% .

Cheers