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Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve question
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:48 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Furthermore, now that we have the option of up to 3GB lowmem split on 32bit we 
> can have a default lowmem_reserve of almost 12MB (if I'm reading it right) 
> which seems very tight with only 16MB of ZONE_DMA. 

I haven't crawled around in the vm for ages, but I think that's only
16MB if you support antique cards.

	-Mike