Re: 2.4.x ram issues?

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 14:21:59 EST


On Feb 13, 2002 11:05 -0800, Eugene Chupkin wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > The other possibility with that much RAM is that the page tables are taking
> > up all of the low RAM. Andrea has a patch to put the page tables into
> > higmem in the recent -aa kernels.
>
> I got it, the 2.4.18pre2aa2/pte-highmem-5 but I can't seem to figure out
> what to patch this on, I tried patching it on to 2.2.17, 2.2.18-pre1,
> and 2.2.18-pre2. On all those I get a Hunk failed. Any feedback is
> appreciated.

You may need to use a whole bunch of -aa patches to get it to apply. In
general, the -aa tree is tuned for large machines such as yours, so you
are probably better off getting the whole thing.

Cheers, Andreas

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Andreas Dilger
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