Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:31:39 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? |
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:44:45 -0800 Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > > lowmem. > > > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? > > > > A good amount of the VM was merged into 2.4.23-pre3, so the -aa patches > against pre6 should show you what is missing. > > That said, I have seen a report that no stock 2.4 kernel would run well > > 4GB memory until 2.4.23, but he didn't say how much memory he had.
6 GB
Lowmem looks pretty free though. This lets me suspect 12 GB should be working out, too. If it fails in your tests anyways, please let me know ...
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