From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:40:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:40:08 -0400 Received: from euston.inpharmatica.co.uk ([195.102.24.12]:64455 "EHLO sunsvr130.inpharmatica.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:40:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3CECE320.7030908@purplet.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:40:00 +0100 From: Mike Jagdis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? In-Reply-To: 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 Linus Torvalds wrote: > And let's not _just_ blame oracle, maybe other uses can actually be found > for this (eg XFree86 for UMA graphics cards etc might actually want to use > something like this eventually). Out here in bioinformatics land we have frequent games of "my data set is bigger than your data set" and lots of the processing we do is the sort of thing that could really benefit from big paged VM! Mike