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Alan,

2.4.5-ac2 works fine with 4GB on. Thanks! Will try a 2.4.5-aa2 later
today, just for fun.

Grtz,


Ben

On 27 May 2001, at 22:21, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option
> > and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by
> > schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off.
> > Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM.
> >
> > 2.4.5 works fine with the 4GB. Any idea what changed between the two?
>
> The -ac tree has some VM differences for bigmem that really need to be
> cleaned up and/or removed now the Linus tree is looking solid. I'll probably
> drop those diffs for -ac2 so that folks are working against one set of VM
>

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