High memory kernel support

Kenneth E. Lussier klussier at comcast.net
Thu Mar 17 12:00:01 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:40 -0500, Charles Farinella wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:03, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:

> > 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
> 
Well, for many reasons, I would suggest upgrading the kernel to 2.6.
And, of course, add another GB of memory :-)

HTH,
Kenny

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