From: Tom Gall <tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] arbitrary size memory allocator, memarea-2.4.15-D6
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:49:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF2D8C7.6D344638@vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111131557511.12260-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX>
Riley Williams wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff.
>
> > With bootmem you know that (for example) 100GB of physically
> > contiguous memory is likely to be available...
>
> Please point me to where you found a machine with 100 Gigabytes of RAM
> as I could realy make use of that here...
Well as an example, the new IBM pSeries p690, and yes it does run Linux.
Will it be 100 Gig of physically contiguous memory? Not necessarily but it
certainly could be.
Now if it would only fit under my desk....
> Best wishes from Riley.
Regards,
Tom
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111081836080.15975-100000@localhost.localdomain.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-08 23:00 ` speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 0:05 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-09 5:45 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 6:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 6:39 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 6:54 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:24 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-09 7:35 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:16 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-09 12:54 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 13:15 ` Philip Dodd
2001-11-09 13:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 20:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-09 13:17 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 13:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 13:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 5:20 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-10 4:56 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-10 5:09 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-10 13:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 13:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 13:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 14:29 ` Numbers: ext2/ext3/reiser Performance (ext3 is slow) Oktay Akbal
2001-11-10 14:47 ` arjan
2001-11-10 17:41 ` Oktay Akbal
2001-11-10 17:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-15 17:24 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-11-12 16:59 ` [patch] arbitrary size memory allocator, memarea-2.4.15-D6 Ingo Molnar
2001-11-12 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-12 23:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-13 15:59 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-14 20:49 ` Tom Gall [this message]
2001-11-15 1:11 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-17 18:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-09 3:12 ` speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? Rusty Russell
2001-11-09 5:59 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 11:16 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-12 9:59 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-12 23:23 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-12 23:14 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-13 1:30 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-13 1:15 ` David Lang
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