From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM?
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:44:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203174445.GA29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote:
>
> I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era
> kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of
> lowmem.
>
> The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23
> Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should
> I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box?
>
A good amount of the VM was merged into 2.4.23-pre3, so the -aa patches against
pre6 should show you what is missing.
That said, I have seen a report that no stock 2.4 kernel would run well >
4GB memory until 2.4.23, but he didn't say how much memory he had.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 14:51 Ian Soboroff
2003-12-03 17:44 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-12-06 13:31 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-03 18:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-03 19:33 ` 2.6-aa? was: " Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03 20:14 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-03 21:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-03 21:23 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-03 21:59 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-06 13:36 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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