From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <uml@hno.marasystems.com>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Vaibhav Sharma,
Noida" <Vaibhavs@noida.hcltech.com>,
Doug Dumitru <doug@easyco.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] memory
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:24:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F52128.6080202@fujitsu-siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501241811.j0OIBYXk002874@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
Jeff Dike wrote:
> bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com said:
>
>>But that's not all, what's needed to have *support* for big memory.
>>Linux needs to have one struct page for each physical mem page, which
>>in the simple case of UML are placed in one memmap array.
>
>
> The original poster is interested in the memory scalability of Linux, so
> presumably he'll be looking into things like this :-)
>
> And it's not only this. It's the kernel stacks and page tables you'll have
> for all the processes you'll be running on this large machine, inodes and other
> file system data for all the files they have open, etc.
Yes. That's the reason, why I estimated 1GB of memory for kernels internal use,
additionally to the memmap.
>
> Jeff
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting
Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time
by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc.
Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl
_______________________________________________
User-mode-linux-devel mailing list
User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-24 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-23 6:46 [uml-devel] memory Vaibhav Sharma, Noida
2005-01-23 8:28 ` Doug Dumitru
2005-01-23 9:51 ` Rob Landley
2005-01-24 18:41 ` Blaisorblade
2005-01-23 18:27 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-01-23 18:25 ` Rob Landley
2005-01-24 10:02 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-01-24 18:52 ` Blaisorblade
2005-01-24 1:11 ` Jeff Dike
2005-01-24 5:10 ` Rob Landley
2005-01-24 10:12 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-01-24 11:31 ` Bodo Stroesser
2005-01-24 11:32 ` stian
[not found] ` <200501241811.j0OIBYXk002874@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
2005-01-24 16:24 ` Bodo Stroesser [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-24 8:13 Vaibhav Sharma, Noida
2005-01-24 12:43 ` Rob Landley
2005-01-24 19:07 ` Blaisorblade
2005-01-24 22:41 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-01-25 1:40 ` Rob Landley
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=41F52128.6080202@fujitsu-siemens.com \
--to=bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com \
--cc=Vaibhavs@noida.hcltech.com \
--cc=doug@easyco.com \
--cc=jdike@addtoit.com \
--cc=rob@landley.net \
--cc=uml@hno.marasystems.com \
--cc=user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.