[Gllug] 4G Memory Restriction

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:38:20AM +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> Right - so supposing I am running on 64 bit architecture (for example
> I've just built some rhel 3 and 4 machines on DL585s which use
> Opterons).  I've got 32 bit kernel and userland on this machine.

You could recompile the kernel for 64 bit support and run your 32 bit
userland on top.  This doesn't buy you a lot though.  You should
really install a 64 bit distro (64 bit kernel, 64 bit userland - I'd
recommend Ubuntu for desktop or Debian/AMD64 for servers, but there
are plenty of other choices now).  Then if you still have any legacy
binary-only 32 bit apps, you can still run them, so long as you also
install any legacy libraries they depend on.  Most 64 bit distros make
this reasonably easy.

Rich.

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