Maximum amount of supported ram? [Solved]

[d.custer]

What is the maximum amount of supported ram?

[curaga]

32bit kernel: 4gb
64bit kernel: I'll need to check that, but at least 256tb.

[bmarkus]

I found 128 tb / process for 64-bit due to Intel MMU limitation. Article is 3 years old, maybe there is a new limit with new CPU's.

[d.custer]

As far as I can tell "TinyCore" is only 32bit. There is no 64bit "TinyCore". Which would mean that any version of "TinyCore" can only handle a maximum of 4gb of ram. Am I incorrect? Please tell me I am incorrect!? 

[Rich]

Hi d.custer
You might want to take a look here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/release/distribution_files/

[d.custer]

So during install just replace "core.gz" with "core64.gz"?

[AbNoRMiS]

32bit kernel: 4gb
64bit kernel: I'll need to check that, but at least tb.

wondering in how many decades tasks under tinycore will consume at least half of these 256 terabyte?

[gerald_clark]

You also need the vmlinuz64 64 bit kernel.

[ChuckNorris]

64bit kernel: I'll need to check that, but at least 256tb.

I know this is an old thread, but there seems to be no confirmed answer. E.g. some linux flavors have 128GB limits. Does the microcore kernel have similar limitations? Running 'dmidecode -t 16' produces 4GB on a 64-bit kernel.

[coreplayer2]

Isn't it a CPU limit only ?


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[curaga]

dmidecode reads your BIOS and motherboard info, I think that value is the max your mobo will accept.

[ChuckNorris]

Thanks, the machine has 6GB so it might be a process limitation due to this dmidecode being the 32-bit version. Looks like the only way to really find out is to test and see what happens at 64GB, 128GB, 256GB. Easier said than done.

Thanks again