Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263050AbTIRKNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263051AbTIRKNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:13:30 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:9398 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263050AbTIRKN3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:13:29 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:13:27 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Olivier Galibert Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br, pavel@ucw.cz, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 Message-Id: <20030918121327.5739b467.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030918095845.GA77609@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <20030916195345.GB68728@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20030916212301.GC17045@m23.limsi.fr> <20030917131407.17f767a3.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030917130818.GA3144@m23.limsi.fr> <20030918095845.GA77609@dspnet.fr.eu.org> 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: 1282 Lines: 29 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:58:45 +0200 Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:08:18PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:14:07PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > Can you please give 2.4.23-pre4 a short test. I think I can see a > > > remarkable difference tp 2.4.22 and would like to find confirmation ... > > > > Well, I tried but the aic7xxx does not work for me, see other mail. > > I'll try again once the LUN enumeration is fixed. > > Actually I had booted the wrong kernel (2.6.0t4) by mistake. SCSI > works, and there is indeed a remarkable difference. The system holds > perfectly under filled-ram, high i/o usage now. Excellent. Fine. So we seem to agree 2.4.23 will be another big hit in the 2.4 line :-) > Now if only the CPU enumeration worked and both CPUs were detected... Hm, I have not yet seen any configuration where multiple CPUs are not detected. Are you sure you have compiled in SMP support? What does dmesg look like? 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/