From: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: The 64GB memory thing
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:46:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99Nov3.154619gmt.66624@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911031654080.7408-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> the 64GB stuff got included recently. It's a significant rewrite of the
> lowlevel x86 MM and generic MM layer, here is a short description about
> it:
>
> my 'HIGHMEM patch' went into the 2.3 kernel starting at pre4-2.3.23. This
> ...
Wow, that's good news. But hang on a second, ;-) wasn't there a feature
freeze at 2.3.18?
And presumably each process is still limited to a 32-bit address space,
right?
As for stability, anyone got any comments?
> 64 GB PAE mode works just fine on my 8GB RAM, 8-way Xeon box:
Mmmmm :-) Could you give us the source and a ballpark price on that
please?
thanks for the update,
Neil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-03 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-03 9:48 The 4GB " Neil Conway
1999-11-03 16:25 ` The 64GB " Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 15:46 ` Neil Conway [this message]
1999-11-03 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 20:47 ` Tom Hull
1999-11-03 18:09 ` The 4GB " Kanoj Sarcar
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