Mirko Leanza wrote:
> We're using RHEL5 from April 2007, but only now we have notice that
> Kernel-PAE isn't a natural substitute of the Kernel Hugemem...
> Infact seems that is impossible to have more than ~800MB for Kernel
> Mode... well we have developed a Kernel Application that sometimes reach
> and pass this value.
> How is possibile in 32 bit architecture "workaround" this problem and
> have more than 1GB of lower memory, without change distribution our to
> upgrade to 64bit architecture?
> Maybe it's possible to recompile Kernel-Pae?
> I hope is possible!
> Thank in advance for help!

Hugemem is gone in RHEL 5. The RHEL 5 kernel is more efficient with
page tables, so the PAE kernel scales higher than the RHEL 3 and RHEL 4
32-bit SMP kernels, but if you want lots of lowmem, you need to go to
64-bit.

-- Chris

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