Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 17:23:32 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Can you outline the changes in this area? I want to make sure we're > not all fighting the same problems seperately ;-) I know bounce > buffers is one large element of that, though I believe you still > only go up to 4Gb, unless I'm mistaken?
Bounce buffer handling
> > To go past 16Gb you need highmem mapped page tables which I'm > > pretty sure did not make it in. > > You need it earlier than that if you have many large tasks (4Gb > or so).
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