Kernel: Not All Physical Memory used: read the kernel bigmem docs!
On 8 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980407225708.645A-400000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>,
> James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> wrote:
> >
> >Hmm... On two machines, I have gotten 2.1.93 to behave five different
> >ways.
>
> Many of your problems seem to be due to CONFIG_MAX_MEM.
>
> This value _has_ to be much larger than the small values you try to feed
> it. In particular, it does not make sense to make it smaller than 1024
> (which is the default value)
>
> As it also doesn't make sense to make it larger than 1024 unless you
> have special needs, I have now removed the config option. The people
> who need the config option have machines that can recompile the kernel
> in 2 minutes, they can do that by hand.
>
> Linus
>
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