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From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
To: DevilKin <DevilKin@gmx.net>
Cc: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More memory == better?
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:36:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD5E2C5.26F5A133@lexus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023161340.02EAC9BD76@pop3.telenet-ops.be> <fRjB7.3865$bi5.656765064@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <20011023200715.AEF66217593@tartarus.telenet-ops.be>

DevilKin wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:49, bill davidsen wrote:
>
> > Just remember that to use this memory you need a large memory kernel.
>
> Ah, thats with HIGHMEM support? I've read a lot of awful things about it
> here... how stable (aka usable) is it?

I have 2 observations -

If you don't enable highmem support, you'll
be able to use about 960 MB of your 1 GB -
no big loss, right?

I've been running on a couple machines
with SMP and the 4 GB option, and they
seem quite stable (there was a highmem
bug in the preempt patch, but that is fixed
in the most recent release)

All things considered, it works quite well.

cu

jjs


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-23 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 16:10 More memory == better? DevilKin
2001-10-23 16:15 ` antirez
2001-10-23 17:46   ` DevilKin
2001-10-23 19:49 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-23 20:04   ` DevilKin
2001-10-23 19:09     ` David Lang
2001-10-23 20:38     ` bill davidsen
2001-10-23 21:36     ` J Sloan [this message]
2001-10-24  8:38       ` Dirk Moerenhout
2001-10-24  6:36   ` Jens Axboe

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