>
> > I heard that himem slows down systems.
>
> It does, because it's a hack to extend 32-bit machines beyond their
> architectural lifetime.
>
While it certainly makes sense to expect a performance hit for mem above 4GB
on 32 bit systems I don't see why there should be any a priori reason to
either move to 64 bit or take a performance hit for if you need, say, 2GB of
RAM. The problem is that 2.4 Linux considers HIGHMEM to be anything above
896MB.
>From what I've read it looks like there will be changes in 2.5 to fix all
this.
Marvin Justice
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