From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Highmem on or off ?
Date: 12 Apr 2002 14:01:21 -0400
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On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 05:22, Philippe Gramoull=E9 wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> What you you recommend with a current 2.4.19-pre6 kernel ( i applied
> speedup patch as well) for Highmem in terms of stability on a rather
> heavily loaded NFS server.
>=20
> Would you recommend to turn highmem off or i can safely turn it on ?

I would suggest using andrea's kernels for speed with highmem.  He has
patches that eliminate bounce buffers for most scsi and ide cards, as
well as many VM tweaks.

-chris