Re: Allocating more than 890MB in the kernel?

From: Timur Tabi (ttabi@interactivesi.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 14:41:59 EST

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John Tyner wrote:

> Isn't this solved by just recompiling the kernel with HIGHMEM support?

I don't think so. The Red Hat 7.1 kernel is compiled with "4GB" support,
which apparently is the same as HIGHMEM. We see the 890MB kernel vmalloc
limit still.

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