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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



  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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