From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: Nagy Tibor <nagyt@otpbank.hu>
Cc: xela@slit.de, mochel@osdl.org, bmoyle@mvista.com,
orc@pell.chi.il.us, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HIGHMEM
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:12:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uvfmbktrj.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402CC114.8080100@dell633.otpefo.com> (Nagy Tibor's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:20:36 +0100")
Nagy Tibor <nagyt@otpbank.hu> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am sorry, I have found your e-mail address in
> ./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c. I have the problem below since a year, and
> there is no solution yet. I guess, the problem is about e820. The
> problem exists in 2.4.x and also in 2.6.1.
>
> We have two Dell Poweredge servers, an older one (PowerEdge 6300) and a
> newer one (PowerEdge 6400). Both servers have 4GB RAM, but the Linux
> kernel uses about 500MB less memory in the newer machine.
I may be talking through my hat, but I think that in this case you
need to select the option for support of 64G highmem. If I recall,
"4G highmem" refers not to the total amount to the memory, but to the
highest physical address that can be accessed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-13 12:20 HIGHMEM Nagy Tibor
2004-02-13 13:12 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2004-02-13 16:05 ` HIGHMEM Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-13 22:09 ` HIGHMEM Matt Domsch
2004-02-13 22:18 ` HIGHMEM Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-13 17:08 ` HIGHMEM david parsons
2004-02-13 13:36 ` HIGHMEM Matt Domsch
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-15 14:39 HIGHMEM Nagy Tibor
2003-04-15 15:14 ` HIGHMEM William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-15 16:03 ` HIGHMEM Samuel Flory
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