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To: John Tyner <jtyner@cs.ucr.edu>
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Subject: Re: Allocating more than 890MB in the kernel?
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John Tyner wrote:

> Isn't this solved by just recompiling the kernel with HIGHMEM support?


I don't think so.  The Red Hat 7.1 kernel is compiled with "4GB" support, 
which apparently is the same as HIGHMEM.  We see the 890MB kernel vmalloc 
limit still.

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