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Re: Maximum physical memory on i386 platform

Ravi K wrote:

> Hi,
>   The configuration help for HIGHMEM feature on i386
> platform states that 'Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes
> of physical memory on x86 systems'. I see a problem
> with this:
>  - page structures needed to support 64GB would take
> up 1GB memory (64 bytes per page of size 4k) 


64GB is physical memory, not virtual memory.

	-hpa



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