From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C058875.1392B3AC@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:59:33 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Status of sendfile() + HIGHMEM References: <3C0577FF.3040209@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > zeus.kernel.org is currently running with HIGHMEM turned off, since it > crashed due to an unfortunate interaction between sendfile() and HIGHMEM > -- this was using 2.4.10-ac4 or thereabouts. > > The current zeus.kernel.org has 1 GB of RAM, however, it looks like we're > going to get a 6 GB machine donated. Clearly HIGHMEM is going to be > necessary (still an x86 machine, unfortunately), and I wanted to ask if it > was believed that these problems had been worked out... Get a 64-bit machine and forget about doing >32bits on a 32-bit machine :) -- Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/