Actually, in my experience, it is the value of HighTotal in /proc/meminfo - we have several examples: (All boxes have 4GB of memory) IBM x330 running RH7.2 2.4.9-31enterprise 2948012 kB IBM x330 running RH7.2 2.4.9-31smp0xe 3473328 kB (custom kernel from Magma) IBM x335 running RH7.2 2.4.9-31custom 3276780 kB (custom kernel, had to add Broadcom and LSI MPT SCSI drivers) Check out this web site: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/bigmem On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 21:07, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Just a sanity check here: > The maximum amount of memory a process can us on a x86 based CPU running > Red Hat Linux is 3.5 GB, right? -- Tom Wike Email: t-wike@ti.com ITS Design Systems Support Voice: 214-480-2272 Texas Instruments Incorporated Cell: 214-212-4497 12500 TI Boulevard, MS 8714 (PFLP) Pager: 972-648-2012 Dallas, TX 75243-0592 Fax: 214-480-7676 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list