Bigmem Kernels in RHEL AS 5

David Miller millerdc at fusion.gat.com
Fri Mar 23 06:37:28 UTC 2007


I believe that since RHEL4 the default installed 2.6.9 kernel will  
handle large amounts of memory just fine. Red Hat puts artificial  
limits on their kernel but even in WS it is like 16GB.

David.

On Mar 22, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Young, Mike wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I don't see a BIGMEM or HUGEMEM kernel on the new RHEL 5 CD's...  
> how are systems with 4GB+ being handled with RHEL5?  Kernel boot  
> parameters?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
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