From: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.com>
To: Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Bradley Chapman <kakadu@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:08:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070512130823.66bbeead@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46366B34.3050003@gmail.com>
El Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:18:28 +0100
Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com> escribió:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases.
> >
> > It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do something of
> > this sort to use an entire 1GB RAM with minimal user address space
> > reduction.
> >
> > This is an ELF ABI violation but the number of major applications
> > that break is apparently low.
> >
> >
> wine and some java implementations being two of the big caveats.
I'm happily using java6-jre and wine (latest versions) on self compiled
vanilla kernels with CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT=y
For the record i use wine for utorrrent and SwitcherCADIII/LTspice and
java for sancho (front end to mldonkey). Some may think it is not a
heavy use
>
> Matt
>
Alejandro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 20:26 CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM Bradley Chapman
2007-04-30 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-30 7:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-30 22:18 ` Matt Keenan
2007-04-30 22:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-12 11:08 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández [this message]
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2007-05-01 5:06 Al Boldi
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