Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-05-12 Thread Alejandro Riveira Fernández
El Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:18:28 +0100 Matt Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases. > > > > It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread Al Boldi
William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases. >> It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in >> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do something of >> this sort to use an entire 1GB RAM with minimal user address space >> r

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases. >> It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in >> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do something of >> this sort to use an entire 1GB RAM with minimal user address space >> r

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Keenan
William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:42 +0100 "Bradley Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically, all I want to know is whether or not enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G for a laptop that has exactly 1GB of RAM will result in any performance degradation. On Mon, Apr 30,

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:42 +0100 "Bradley Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Basically, all I want to know is whether or not enabling >> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G for a laptop that has exactly 1GB of RAM will result >> in any performance degradation. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:17:55AM -0700, Andrew M

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:42 +0100 "Bradley Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing a second 512MB SODIMM into my laptop, I noticed that > my 2.6.18.3 kernel only detected and used 896MB of the resulting 1GB, > and informed me that I needed to enable high memory in order to access >

CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-28 Thread Bradley Chapman
After installing a second 512MB SODIMM into my laptop, I noticed that my 2.6.18.3 kernel only detected and used 896MB of the resulting 1GB, and informed me that I needed to enable high memory in order to access the remaining 127MB. While doing so, I noticed that the help text stated that enabling