Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261925AbTIPOhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:37:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261928AbTIPOhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:37:04 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:19851 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261925AbTIPOhA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:37:00 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:36:58 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 Message-Id: <20030916163658.4b1a8c5c.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030916153658.3081af6c.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 20 On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:33:27 -0300 (BRT) Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Well, I do understand the bounce buffer problem, but honestly the current way > > of handling the situation seems questionable at least. If you ever tried such a > > system you notice it is a lot worse than just dumping the additional ram above > > 4GB. You can really watch your network connections go bogus which is just > > unacceptable. > > All is fine with 4GB? Absolutely perfect. Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/