[PLUG] Kernel Config for HIGHMEM?
Carla Schroder
carla at bratgrrl.com
Mon Jan 3 03:31:05 UTC 2005
On Sunday 02 January 2005 6:15 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> While I'm printing a long-ish job I decided to check system status.
> Reading dmesg I see the following:
>
> Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
>
> I have 1G RAM installed. I don't recall seeing a kernel configuration
> switch for HIGHMEM. Can someone point me toward the section in which that's
> located?
>
Lazy man, why don't you tediously click through all the kernel configs like
the rest of us.
;)
For the 2.4 kernel, look under Processor type -> features -> High Memory
Support. I dunno for 2.6.
If my elderly memory is not playing tricks on me, I thought LOWMEM was up to 1
gigabyte.
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