When i first started getting into linux, I read somewhere that it would only use ‘x’ amount of memory… not sure what ‘x’ was exactly but it was less than 1gb. And if you wanted more you had to tell linux to use the rest… I don’t remember if it was a suppose to be a general thing or a suse thing…
My question is, is that true and if it is, is it a linux thing or a suse thing. Also if it is true, what command do you use to make it use the rest…
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Not true… at all. I have two boxes with 8GB and setup some for work
with 32 (64-bit) without doing anything special.
Good luck.
shard92 wrote:
> When i first started getting into linux, I read somewhere that it would
> only use ‘x’ amount of memory… not sure what ‘x’ was exactly but it
> was less than 1gb. And if you wanted more you had to tell linux to use
> the rest… I don’t remember if it was a suppose to be a general
> thing or a suse thing…
>
> My question is, is that true and if it is, is it a linux thing or a
> suse thing. Also if it is true, what command do you use to make it use
> the rest…
>
>
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What you may find is that some applications cannot use all that memory but, if you are running several applications side by side, you probably won’t notice that.
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Well, the OS itself needs to see all of it. See the ‘4 GB Ram on
OpenSuse 10.3’ thread for more on that. If the OS sees it all then each
process can probably handle a couple gigabytes each and it can all be
used. If the OS is 64-bit you can get access to >4GB without a
performance hit imposed by PAE (32-bit way of getting large amounts of
RAM) and your 64-bit processes can also have >4GB RAM allocated each so
that’s the best of all worlds.
Good luck.
john hudson wrote:
> What you may find is that some applications cannot use all that memory
> but, if you are running several applications side by side, you probably
> won’t notice that.
>
>
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