Re: increase Linux kernel address space 3.5 G memory on Redhat Enterprise version 4

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Minchen Zhao wrote:
> I am running Redhat Linux Enterprise version 4 update 4 on a dual-core 
> 4G memory machine.
> There are many references on the web talking about increasing default 
> user address space
> to 3.5 G however lacking specific instrcutions. My questions:
> 1. What is the specific steps to be done for the kernel to support 3.5 G 
> address space?
> 2. Do I need to re-compile kernel to make this happen? If so, any 
> specific instruction?
> thanks in advance.
> P.S. Please cc to me (mzhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to reply.

Use the hugemem kernel instead of the smp kernel. You will get > 3.5GB
user address space.


-- wli
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