From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265165AbTLFNbo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:31:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265166AbTLFNbo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:31:44 -0500 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:15075 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265165AbTLFNbl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:31:41 -0500 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:31:39 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Mike Fedyk Cc: ian.soboroff@nist.gov, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Message-Id: <20031206143139.0a876c7e.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203174445.GA29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> <20031203174445.GA29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:44:45 -0800 Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > > lowmem. > > > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? > > > > A good amount of the VM was merged into 2.4.23-pre3, so the -aa patches > against pre6 should show you what is missing. > > That said, I have seen a report that no stock 2.4 kernel would run well > > 4GB memory until 2.4.23, but he didn't say how much memory he had. 6 GB Lowmem looks pretty free though. This lets me suspect 12 GB should be working out, too. If it fails in your tests anyways, please let me know ... Regards, Stephan