From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
To: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: The 4GB memory thing
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:09:37 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199911031809.KAA88220@google.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99Nov3.094606gmt.66315@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> from "Neil Conway" at Nov 3, 99 09:48:11 am
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> The recent thread about >4GB surprised me, as I didn't even think >2GB
> was very stable yet. Am I wrong? Are people out there using 4GB boxes
> with decent stability? I presume it's a 2.3 feature, yes?
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> Sorry for my ignorance, I guess I've been dozing a bit of late.
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> Neil
I have a 2.2 patch for 4Gb support, which has seen a lot of stress
testing by now. The 2.3 >2gb support uses a different (and better
approach), but last I checked, things like rawio did not work above
>2Gb. The 64Gb support is completely new ...
Kanoj
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-03 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-03 9:48 Neil Conway
1999-11-03 16:25 ` The 64GB " Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 15:46 ` Neil Conway
1999-11-03 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 20:47 ` Tom Hull
1999-11-03 18:09 ` Kanoj Sarcar [this message]
1999-11-04 18:19 The 4GB " Andrea Arcangeli
1999-11-04 18:48 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-11-04 22:50 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-04 22:08 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-11-05 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-04 23:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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