RE: 3ware and hugemem

> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> you don't really need the hugemem kernel for 8gb; the normal 
>smp kernel
>> will support 8gb just fine...
>
>Ah. I had forgotten that the limit for the base smp kernels had been 
>raised from 4GB at some point. My bad. Thanks for the reminder.
>

But if you want to allocate more than 4gb to a *single* process, then
you would be required to use the hugemem kernel.

With 8GB of RAM, the hugemem kernel is ususally not necessary.  It
becomes recommended/required (due to the memory map that the kernel
keeps in low kernel memory and the resulting exhaustion of low memory)
at around 16GB or so (the number may be higher).

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