Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 15:55:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > large machines. I haven't had a chance to run my own test cases on the > > 2.4.18 kernel from Red Hat 7.3 yet, so I can't make any personal > > contribution to this discussion. > > RedHat has fixed the problem in its kernels. There are fixes out there, but > Linus is not applying them. I would venture that this is because they would > fix the problems *for the moment* and take away interest in revamping VM for > real.
7.3 has some of what is needed but not all. To go past 16Gb you need highmem mapped page tables which I'm pretty sure did not make it in.
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