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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>,
	neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:49:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6730F6.8040508@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1063726141.10036.130.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk



Alan Cox wrote:
> The kernel has no idea what you will do with given ram. It does try to
> make some guesses but you are basically trying to paper over hardware
> limits.


Maybe not what you WILL DO, but what you HAVE DONE.  Those tasks which 
have done the most DMA-requiring I/O could get preference for low 
memory.  No?

Yeah, I know.. show you the code.  :)


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09  9:01 experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-09 12:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-12  2:46 ` Neil Brown
2003-09-12  6:54   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-12  7:11     ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-12  7:53     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-15 22:01     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-16  8:21       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 12:05         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 13:11         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-16 13:36           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 13:55             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-16 14:13               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 14:33             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-16 14:36               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 14:36             ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16 15:20               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 15:29                 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16 15:49                   ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-09-16 16:17                     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-16 19:58                   ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-17 15:10                     ` Alan Cox
2003-09-17 19:19                       ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-17 19:30                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-17 22:18                           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-18  7:08                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-18  7:12                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-18 11:22                               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-18 15:05                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-16 17:10               ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-16 19:53                 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-16 20:04                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-16 21:16                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-16 21:23                     ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-17 11:14                       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-17 13:08                         ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-18  9:58                           ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-18 10:13                             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-09-18 11:22                               ` Olivier Galibert
2003-09-17  6:41               ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-17 10:26                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-17 10:42                   ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-17 10:53                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-17 19:19                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-18 11:39                     ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-18 12:13                       ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-16 15:22             ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-16 15:29             ` Martin J. Bligh

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