On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Peter Deng wrote: > I am just interested to know how Linux OS handle memory on a due Xeon > SMP machines with 8G RAM. The CPU is 32 bits so is Linux OS pointer. How > can the OS use anything above 4G RAM? It counts by page frame number and a machine with 8GB of RAM only has 2 million pages ... Rik -- http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2002/ "You're one of those condescending OLS attendants" "Here's a nickle kid. Go buy yourself a real t-shirt" http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
