Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 3.5G user space speed | Date | 15 Jan 2002 14:09:28 -0800 |
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Followup to: <16247691406.20020115234737@spylog.ru> By author: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 2.4.xaa Series as well as SuSE kernels have 3.5G userspace option, > which seems to be quite useful, therefore I see it's not included > is stock kernel for some reasons. Also I've heard this > configuration may have some performance problems. >
Be careful... 3.5G breaks the initrd protocol (assuming you have enough RAM for it to matter anyway), unless you have a 2.03 boot protocol capable (a) kernel and (b) bootloader. At this point I don't know of any bootloader other than SYSLINUX 1.65 or later that is 2.03 compatible.
-hpa
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