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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alistair Riddell <ali@gwc.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no highmem with 2GB RAM?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:17:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020106111737.C8673@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201050126410.12917-100000@frank.gwc.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201050126410.12917-100000@frank.gwc.org.uk>

On Sat, Jan 05 2002, Alistair Riddell wrote:
> I have a couple of SMP i386 boxes with 2GB RAM. They suffer from poor
> performance due to block IO page bouncing with highmem enabled. I have
> tried the block-highmem patch but this causes occasional oopses and even
> panics under high IO load.

Well thanks for sending in a bug report on that. Mind doing so?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-06 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-05  4:00 no highmem with 2GB RAM? Alistair Riddell
2002-01-06 10:17 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-01-06 12:48   ` Alistair Riddell
2002-01-06 16:10   ` Alistair Riddell

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