2005-01-13 17:34:33

by Rudolf Usselmann

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Subject: Re: kernel (64bit) 4GB memory support

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 09:33 -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
>
> > I mean you guys must have a pretty good idea what is going wrong.
> > Is it possible to add some debugging information ? The latest
> > mm4-jeda kernel seems to be able to "recover" from panics/crashes.
> > It doesn't "die" it just kills the offending app (at least thats
> > my limited understanding).
>
> Ok don't worry about trying to isolate it, there should be a fix for it by
> 2.6.10.
>
> Thanks,
> Zwane

Hi Zwane !

just wondering if there where any fixes submitted with 2.6.10
final release for the memory problem. I did not see anything
from bugzilla ....

Kind Regards,
rudi


2005-01-14 23:34:53

by Zwane Mwaikambo

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Subject: Re: kernel (64bit) 4GB memory support

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:

> > Ok don't worry about trying to isolate it, there should be a fix for it by
> > 2.6.10.
>
> just wondering if there where any fixes submitted with 2.6.10
> final release for the memory problem. I did not see anything
> from bugzilla ....

Hi Rudolf,
I've replied on bugzilla.

Thanks,
Zwane

2005-01-15 05:34:21

by Rudolf Usselmann

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Subject: Re: kernel (64bit) 4GB memory support

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:34 -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
>
> > > Ok don't worry about trying to isolate it, there should be a fix for it by
> > > 2.6.10.
> >
> > just wondering if there where any fixes submitted with 2.6.10
> > final release for the memory problem. I did not see anything
> > from bugzilla ....
>
> Hi Rudolf,
> I've replied on bugzilla.
>
> Thanks,
> Zwane


Hi Zwane,

I tried the new kernel, same results. Still can't use the
extra memory.

Attached is the "dmesg" output ...

Kind Regards,
rudi


Attachments:
new_dump.gz (4.15 kB)

2005-01-17 04:54:21

by Zwane Mwaikambo

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Subject: Re: kernel (64bit) 4GB memory support

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:

> I tried the new kernel, same results. Still can't use the
> extra memory.

Thanks for testing that Rudolf, i'll find a system to reproduce on.