Re: [uml-user] maximum amount of memory for a guest?

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > OK, I just built a 2.6.20.4 UML kernel, and at first sight it seems to > run fine with size=2048M. (With higher values, it still seems fine with > size=2800M, and completely fails to boot with size=2900M or higher.) It's occupying

Re: [uml-user] maximum amount of memory for a guest?

2007-04-04 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > >>Linux version 2.6.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 > > > Can you try something a bit more modern? I don't know that I > specifically fixed anything related to large memories, but something

Re: [uml-user] maximum amount of memory for a guest?

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > Linux version 2.6.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 Can you try something a bit more modern? I don't know that I specifically fixed anything related to large memories, but something seems to have improved since 2.

Re: [uml-user] maximum amount of memory for a guest?

2007-04-04 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Jeff Dike wrote: >>It seems that UML does not run properly when given too much memory. >>After a few tries, there seem to be a limit somewhere below 1.5GB >>memory. The actual limit appears to be moving with some parameters >>(disks, root, initrd, ...). >>With my few tests: >> size=1408M seems to