Dear Dave, > ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit > kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing > something that never got merged upstream ... Sorry to be so contradictory: psz@como:~$ uname -a Linux como.maths.usyd.edu.au 3.2.32-pk06.10-t01-i386 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 18:34:25 EST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux psz@como:~$ free -l total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 64446900 4729292 59717608 0 15972 480520 Low: 375836 304400 71436 High: 64071064 4424892 59646172 -/+ buffers/cache: 4232800 60214100 Swap: 134217724 0 134217724 psz@como:~$ (though I would not know about violations). But OK, I take your point that I should move with the times. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>