Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:03:51 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2005-07-22 at 13:00 -0300, Vinicius wrote: > I also read on the Linux-Kernel that the problem may be related to an > exhaustion of your kernels address space, I read that the hugemem-kernel > might be the solution to this case since it has 4GB for the kernel memory > plus 4GB for user process.
If its x86-32 then only the hugemem kernel will even see the memory. There are big problems with 32Gb+ on a 32bit processor because there is so little memory usable at a time that even the page tables become problematic. Thankfully all sane machines with that much ram are 64bit.
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