Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:52:18 +0100 (MET)
From: Christian Egle <ce@suse.de>
To: suse-announce-e@suse.com
Subject: [suse-announce-e] Terabyte memory expansion for Linux




Dear Linux Enthusiasts!


In the latest kernels 2.2.14 and in 2.3.40 the maximal amount of physical 
RAM supported by linux on the alpha architecture is 2 Gigabyte.

The now completed 2 terabyte expansion for the alpha architecture
comes from SuSE Labs and is again based on the work of SuSE employee
Andrea Arcangeli.

Actually alpha is the only and first architecture supported by linux
capable of allocating more than 4 Gigabyte of memory RAM (up to 2 Terabyte
of RAM) in a single task.

The bigmem patch providing both 2T memory support for alpha and 4G
support for IA32 against 2.2.14 can be downloaded from here:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14/
.2.14-8.gz

If the systems has more than 4giga of RAM some procps utility won't report
the right memory values (it's not a fatal bug but only a beauty one). A
fix against procps can be downloaded from here:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/procps/procps-2.0.2-bigmem-1.gz


Have a lot of fun!


Your SuSE team



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