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. :)
next prev parent 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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