Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2GB-Linux works fine | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:45:35 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Xintian WU wrote:
> Thanks mingo. I manually apply your 2GB patch to linux-2.1.77. > It works well at the first shot. I successfully set mem=2000m. > It doesn't work if I set mem=2048m, which is OK (should it be > a warning message instead of refusing to work silently?)
Yes, this is just like "mem=1024m" on the standard kernel. That would overflow vmalloc-ed stuff into somewhere else. Your system can now only vmalloc something like 40Mb of kernel addressing space. It will probably be able to cope with that.
Roger.
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