do I need to do something special to use more than 4 Gigs under Feisty?

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Thu May 31 09:17:04 BST 2007


On Wed, 30 May 2007, john  wrote:

> I am pretty sure that there are kernel patches that allow 32 bit linux
> to address more than 4 gigs of memory (see for ex:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/75174/ ). Flash and such pretty much need to
> work for this project to be a success, since I'll be replacing fat
> clients where flash does work.

The only other solution to this is to run 32-Bit firefox and plugins within
an otherwise 64-bit linux.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537

A colleague of mine does this on a multi-user setup and seems to think it
works pretty well.  I haven't done it myself though,

Gavin




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