High memory kernel support

Charles Farinella cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com
Thu Mar 17 11:40:02 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:03, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:

> > In researching the cause, I find that my kernel does not have high
> > memory support compiled into it (the default).  Now this is all a little
> > over my head, so I'm asking here, what do you think, will recompiling
> > the kernel to include high memory support resolve this?  The machine had
> > been up for 168 days before this happened.
> 
> Compiling in high memory support will only help you if you plan to add
> more memory. If you have between 1GB and 4GB of RAM, then you want to
> set this to the 4GB option. 

Oh good, that will save me some work.  :-)

> > It has 1GB of physical RAM, and 2GB of swap space.  Slackware 10.0.
> 
> What kernel are you running?

2.4.26


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