On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Peter Tufvesson wrote:
...
>
> It turned out that a 2.1.12 kernel compiled for 1GB of physical memory
> only allowed the process to allocate 910MB! Can anyone comment on this? I
> believed it would be possible to use more... I also run two of these
> processes in parallel, and then both got exactly the same amount, 910MB...
...
That is no bug, it's intended to be so! Just read the relevant header file
<asm/page.h>:
...
* A __PAGE_OFFSET of 0xC0000000 means that the kernel has
* a virtual address space of one gigabyte, which limits the
* amount of physical memory you can use to about 950MB. If
* you want to use more physical memory, change this define.
*
...
Yours,
Dominik Kubla
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