[olug] Advice on a new rig

[Obi-Wan]

>> I run 4GB of DDR2 with a 32-bit kernel, and I've never had any problems.
>> Going beyond 4GB (not 3GB) requires 64-bit or hugemem kernel support.
> 
> Actually, anything beyond 1 GB requires HIGHMEM on x86_32 Linux. However, the 
> OS-independent x86_32 limit is 3 GB, since PCI has a 1 GB mapping reserved.

According to RedHat, that's simply not true.  On 32-bit RHEL installs,
the himem kernel isn't required until you pass 4GB RAM.  BTDT.

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