Xen bigmem SMP

[John J. Culkin]

Thanks for the response

Just to be sure the RHEL Xen kernel (ex: 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen #1 SMP Fri 
Jun 20 03:05:59 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) can handle over *4GB 
of RAM *

*AND*

*over 2 processors?*

-- John C.

Jose R R wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, John J. Culkin <culkinj3 at scranton.edu>wrote:
>
>   
>> What kernel would I use if I wanted to use Xen on a server with more then
>> 4GB of ram and 2 processors?
>>
>> Can the Xen kernel handle this?
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, it can.
>
> Prior to 64-bit release of Xen hypervisor (that is, before the summer of
> 2007), the 32bit-PAE version of Xen allowed the use of up to 16GB of memory.
>
> You can leverage up to 128GB of memory with a current 64-bit Xen modified
> GNU/Linux kernel.
>
> Hope the info is useful.
>
> Jose R Rodriguez
> http://www.metztli-it.com
>   

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