From: Mike Jagdis <jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:40:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CECE320.7030908@purplet.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205221352300.1531-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And let's not _just_ blame oracle, maybe other uses can actually be found
> for this (eg XFree86 for UMA graphics cards etc might actually want to use
> something like this eventually).
Out here in bioinformatics land we have frequent games of "my data
set is bigger than your data set" and lots of the processing we do
is the sort of thing that could really benefit from big paged VM!
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-23 12:40 UTC|newest]
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2002-05-22 20:23 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? Andi Kleen
2002-05-22 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-23 12:40 ` Mike Jagdis [this message]
2002-05-22 14:29 Alastair Stevens
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2002-05-22 6:51 2.4.19pre*: IO statistics in /proc/partitions corrupt Jochen Suckfuell
2002-05-22 14:00 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? M. Edward Borasky
2002-05-22 14:08 ` bert hubert
2002-05-22 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 15:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 21:46 ` Doug Ledford
2002-05-22 14:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 15:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 15:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 16:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 16:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 17:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-22 18:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-22 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 20:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 21:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 22:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-22 22:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-28 2:08 ` Wim Coekaerts
2002-05-31 20:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-23 14:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-23 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-23 19:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-23 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 17:54 ` J Sloan
2002-05-22 18:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 22:05 ` Alan Cox
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