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

[john]

Thanks Gavin, I appreciate that info. I am thinking about that
approach as well. I have some concerns that the 64bit kernel isn't as
stable as the 32 bit kernel, do you have any opinions, or places you
could point me to research that?

John

On 5/31/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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