From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263996AbTLCRov (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:44:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264136AbTLCRov (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:44:51 -0500 Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.52]:64967 "EHLO mtaw4.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263996AbTLCRou (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:44:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:44:45 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Ian Soboroff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Message-ID: <20031203174445.GA29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Soboroff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > lowmem. > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? > A good amount of the VM was merged into 2.4.23-pre3, so the -aa patches against pre6 should show you what is missing. That said, I have seen a report that no stock 2.4 kernel would run well > 4GB memory until 2.4.23, but he didn't say how much memory he had.