Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262518AbTIPT7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:59:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262519AbTIPT7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:59:00 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([62.73.5.179]:47366 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262518AbTIPT67 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:58:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:58:58 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert 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 Message-ID: <20030916195858.GC68728@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Alan Cox , Stephan von Krawczynski , Marcelo Tosatti , neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063726141.10036.130.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 13 On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:29:02PM +0100, 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. Is there a way to specifically turn that ram into a tmpfs though? OG. - 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/