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From: "Dan Noé" <dpn@isomerica.net>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Rafal Wijata <devnull@wijata.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd swapping issue
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:20:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4887E700.6060602@isomerica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4887A000.30605@davidnewall.com>

David Newall wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> 16g ram on a 32bit kernel is stretching it... may I suggest running a
>> 64bit kernel?
>>   
> 
> Is it?  Do we expect that behaviour with so much RAM?

The memory must be mapped into the 4GB (32-bit) virtual address space to
be used.  Having this much memory on a system with 32 bit pointers leads
to a lot of VM overhead and strange behavior.

Cheers,
Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-23 16:53 Odd swapping issue Rafal Wijata
2008-07-23 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 21:17   ` David Newall
2008-07-24  2:20     ` Dan Noé [this message]
2008-07-24  6:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-24 11:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-24 13:45 ` Rafal Wijata (NULL)
2008-07-24 13:58   ` Peter Zijlstra

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