From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264331AbTLKFdm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:33:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264353AbTLKFdm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:33:42 -0500 Received: from mx2.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.94]:43982 "EHLO mx2.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264331AbTLKFdk (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:33:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD801B3.7080604@wmich.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:33:39 -0500 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Donald Maner , Raul Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram. References: <3FD7FCF5.7030109@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3FD7FCF5.7030109@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I thought highmem wasn't necesarily needed for memory <=2GB? Highmem incurs some performance hits doesn't it and so the urge to move to it with only 2GB is not very attractive. Anyways i'm just interested in if that's the case or not since 2GB is easy to get to these days and i had heard that highmem could be avoided passed the 1GB barrier. Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Donald Maner wrote: > >> The kernel you're using WAS compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, correct? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Raul Miller [mailto:moth@magenta.com] Sent: Wednesday, December >> 10, 2003 10:52 PM >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB >> ram. >> >> >> [1.] Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram. >> > > Raul Miller wrote: > >> >> [7.2.] /proc/cpuinfo says: >> >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD >> cpu family : 15 >> model : 5 >> model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 240 >> > > Or ARCH=x86_64 ? > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >