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Offline d.custer

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Maximum amount of supported ram? [Solved]
« on: July 26, 2012, 02:25:14 PM »
What is the maximum amount of supported ram?
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 02:45:21 PM »
32bit kernel: 4gb
64bit kernel: I'll need to check that, but at least 256tb.

« Last Edit: July 26, 2012, 03:03:53 PM by bmarkus »
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 03:04:00 PM »
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.
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 03:53:19 PM »
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!?  :'(

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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 04:14:37 PM »
So during install just replace "core.gz" with "core64.gz"?

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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 04:23:53 PM »
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? :)
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2012, 06:08:21 PM »
You also need the vmlinuz64 64 bit kernel.

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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram?
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2014, 05:32:53 PM »
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.


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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram? [Solved]
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2014, 10:37:49 PM »
Isn't it a CPU limit only ?


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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram? [Solved]
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2014, 03:33:21 AM »
dmidecode reads your BIOS and motherboard info, I think that value is the max your mobo will accept.
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Re: Maximum amount of supported ram? [Solved]
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2014, 05:12:04 AM »
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