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hugemem kernal and CentOS 5 (32 bit)

Hello,

I need to setup a server to host a number of dynamic websites powered by Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

I plan to use CentOS 5 (32 bit).

I have 4 GB of total RAM and was told that the hugemem kernal is required to address more than 3GB for single processes.

How stable is the hugemem kernal? Is it needed?

Should I install the hugemem kernal? and if so where do I get it?

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Standard kernel can address something like 3.9G(4G-128M) of memory, so having 4G ram and standard kernel cause loosing the (small) amount of memory.

So for 4G ram and more - kernel-PAE

Also, it seems that I was wrong with the 4G per process in hugemem kernel. The hugemem kernel was shipped with CentOS 4.X, but it seems, that version 5 dropped the support for that. Probably in favor to 64bit system.

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