From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:18:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:17:56 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:4 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:17:44 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:17:37 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Alistair Riddell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: no highmem with 2GB RAM? Message-ID: <20020106111737.C8673@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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