Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rob Mueller" <> | Subject | Re: mmap dirty limits on 32 bit kernels (Was: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs) | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:24:06 +1100 |
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> That's my personal opinion, and I realize that some of the commercial > vendors may care about their insane customers' satisfaction, but I'm > simply not interested in insane users. If they have that much RAM (and > bought it a few years ago when a 64-bit CPU wasn't an option), they can't > be poor.
From our perspective, the main issue is that some of these machines we spent quite a bit of money on the big RAM (for it's day) + lots of 15k RPM SCSI drives + multi-year support contracts. They're highly IO bound, and barely use 10-20% of their old 2.4Ghz Prestonia Xeon CPUs. It's hard to justify junking those machines < 5 years.
We have a couple of 6G machines and some 8G machines using PAE. On the whole, they actually have been working really well (hmmm, apart from the recent dirty pages issue + reiserfs data=journal leaks + inodes in lowmem limits)
Rob
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