Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261920AbTIPPsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261979AbTIPPsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:48:45 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:7179 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261920AbTIPPso (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:48:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3F6730F6.8040508@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:49:10 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Stephan von Krawczynski , Marcelo Tosatti , neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 References: <20030916102113.0f00d7e9.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030916153658.3081af6c.skraw@ithnet.com> <1063722973.10037.65.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030916172057.148a5741.skraw@ithnet.com> <1063726141.10036.130.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> 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 Content-Length: 611 Lines: 19 Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel has no idea what you will do with given ram. It does try to > make some guesses but you are basically trying to paper over hardware > limits. Maybe not what you WILL DO, but what you HAVE DONE. Those tasks which have done the most DMA-requiring I/O could get preference for low memory. No? Yeah, I know.. show you the code. :) - 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/