Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759397AbXELLIv (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:08:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757899AbXELLIn (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:08:43 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:62596 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758758AbXELLIl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:08:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EH33707jY9PX5vkgyyp0cLV0S8z52oCPjupbfufx9QXNzrHE+z3gCoq2q+rAsKdfGzDzO9ocdPByCscfVetV4mlMoQ/d/GvL9tgcL46ONxXiWpl4BDcql+Hlnoo/Vm7i3fPfcQ543y492By7wduUo3ADCMwshVNqCFR++DffEoQ= Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:08:23 +0200 From: Alejandro Riveira =?UTF-8?B?RmVybsOhbmRleg==?= To: Matt Keenan Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Bradley Chapman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM Message-ID: <20070512130823.66bbeead@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <46366B34.3050003@gmail.com> References: <20070430001755.e9f203c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070430074044.GB19966@holomorphy.com> <46366B34.3050003@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1127 Lines: 34 El Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:18:28 +0100 Matt Keenan escribió: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases. > > > > It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do something of > > this sort to use an entire 1GB RAM with minimal user address space > > reduction. > > > > This is an ELF ABI violation but the number of major applications > > that break is apparently low. > > > > > wine and some java implementations being two of the big caveats. I'm happily using java6-jre and wine (latest versions) on self compiled vanilla kernels with CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT=y For the record i use wine for utorrrent and SwitcherCADIII/LTspice and java for sancho (front end to mldonkey). Some may think it is not a heavy use > > Matt > Alejandro - 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/