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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fix PID hash sizing
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:44:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I see PID hash sizing problems on an Opteron.
> I thought this got fixed a while ago? Hm.
> Export nr_kernel_pages, nr_all_pages. Use nr_kernel_pages when sizing
> the PID hash. This fixes a sizing problem I'm seeing with the x86-64 kernel
> on an Opteron.

Please describe the the pid hash sizing problem.


-- wli