From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Manuel Krause <manuel.krause@mb.tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>,
reiserfs-list <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: slightly [OT] highmem (was Re: 2.4.20 at kernel.org and data logging)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:50:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030124105019.A5426@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E308664.5010705@mb.tu-ilmenau.de>
Hello!
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:18:44AM +0100, Manuel Krause wrote:
> >You need highmem if you want more than 980M. People usually refer to 1G,
> >and if you don't mind wasting 20M then that's near enough.
> Mmh. So I wasn't really clear with my questions?
> Does it give advantages for 512M systems like mine if I enabled
> higmem4GB / highmem64GB with "pae" or does it produce more overhead that
> you mention below?
You get no advantage of course.
But lots of overhead. Rumours have it that 256M systems with highmem enabled
kernels (default for RedHat beta it seems) are swapping much more
then when the same kernel is built with highmem off.
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-24 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-16 23:51 2.4.20 at kernel.org and data logging Sewell, Cassandra D (Cassandra)
2003-01-17 0:33 ` Manuel Krause
2003-01-18 10:25 ` Russell Coker
2003-01-18 15:57 ` Chris Mason
2003-01-19 10:45 ` Russell Coker
2003-01-23 23:10 ` slightly [OT] highmem (was Re: 2.4.20 at kernel.org and data logging) Manuel Krause
2003-01-23 23:40 ` Russell Coker
2003-01-24 0:18 ` Manuel Krause
2003-01-24 0:24 ` Russell Coker
2003-01-24 7:50 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2003-01-24 17:00 ` Dieter Nützel
2003-01-24 17:03 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-01-24 17:15 ` Dieter Nützel
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