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From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Memory limit / xen for Conectiva
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:23:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040927132322.GB4130@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CAwJ4-0006Xj-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:04:38PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Unfortunately this is not the case. You've got a great big memory hole
> between 2GB and 4GB. So the remaining 6GB of your memory are all above
> the 4GB boundary. That memory is inaccessible when not using PAE-36
> mode, which we do not support.

Ouch! 


> It may be possible to tweak BIOS settings to get more of your memory
> into the low 4GB. Probably it is arranged as it is so that large-ish
> I/O regions such as the frame buffer can be allocated below the 4GB
> boundary without overlapping with any RAM (which would then become
> inaccessible). It's worth a look...

There are only 2 options related with memory but no one can't fix that 
hole. I will try another machine to test xen again.

Thanks! 

-- 
Flávio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>
[ E74B 0BD0 5E05 C385 239E  531C BC17 D670 7FF0 A9E0 ]


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24 17:32 Memory limit / xen for Conectiva Flavio Leitner
2004-09-24 17:47 ` Ian Pratt
2004-09-24 17:58   ` Flavio Leitner
2004-09-24 18:26     ` Ian Pratt
2004-09-24 20:04       ` Keir Fraser
2004-09-27 13:23         ` Flavio Leitner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-25  1:40 James Harper
2004-09-25  9:04 ` Keir Fraser

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