From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) Message-Id: <199911031809.KAA88220@google.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: The 4GB memory thing Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:09:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <99Nov3.094606gmt.66315@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> from "Neil Conway" at Nov 3, 99 09:48:11 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Neil Conway Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------8C597550CEC840E9F68E4220 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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? > > Sorry for my ignorance, I guess I've been dozing a bit of late. > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/