From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <99Nov3.154619gmt.66624@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:46:33 +0000 From: Neil Conway MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: The 64GB memory thing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linux MM List-ID: 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 -- 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/