From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:59:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C40A39F.8030703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020112004528.A159@earthlink.net> <a1ooql$ili$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20020112141738.L1482@inspiron.school.suse.de>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> actually it is really max virtual memory.. but from the user point of
> view, user is supposed to care about the virtual memory he can manage,
> not about what the kernel will do with the rest. So if the user wants
> 3GB of virtual memory available to each task he will select 3GB. I
> really don't mind if you want to change it from the kernel point of
> view, but given it's the user who's supposed to compile it, also the
> current patch looks good enough to me.
>
Oh, right... if so he simply has the 05G option mislabelled... it should
be 3.5G
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-12 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 5:45 [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB rwhron
2002-01-12 7:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-12 13:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 17:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-12 17:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 18:28 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-12 19:07 ` BIO Usage Error or Conflicting Designs Andre Hedrick
2002-01-12 20:05 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-13 1:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-13 12:59 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-13 19:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-14 6:42 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-12 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-12 11:56 ` [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 15:50 ` rwhron
2002-01-12 19:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-12 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-13 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 23:11 ` Marvin Justice
2002-01-14 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 0:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 2:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-18 21:18 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-19 0:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-12 21:41 ` rwhron
2002-01-12 22:34 ` rwhron
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-15 14:07 rwhron
2002-01-15 17:48 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-16 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-23 3:53 ` rwhron
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