Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 08:56:28 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? |
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> 7.3 has some of what is needed but not all.
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?
> 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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