From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 05:28:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 05:28:00 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:32986 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 05:27:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 02:26:43 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Daniel Phillips , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?] Message-ID: <20020503092643.GR32767@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrea Arcangeli , "Martin J. Bligh" , Daniel Phillips , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020503080433.R11414@dualathlon.random> <4023859403.1020382422@[10.10.2.3]> <20020503103813.K11414@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:38:13AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > You can use 64G "sucessfully" just now too with 2.4.19pre8 too, as said > in the earlier email there are many applications that doesn't care if > there's only a few meg of zone_normal and for them 2.4.19pre8 is just > fine (actually -aa is much better for the bounce buffers and other vm > fixes in that area). If all the load is in userspace current 2.4 is just Have you done testing with 64GB? What sort of failure modes are you seeing with it? I've been hearing about more severe failure modes in practice on 32GB, Martin, could you comment on this? Cheers, Bill