Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932900AbXKOWMW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:12:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760684AbXKOWMO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:12:14 -0500 Received: from zrtps0kn.nortel.com ([47.140.192.55]:36578 "EHLO zrtps0kn.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757820AbXKOWMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:12:13 -0500 Message-ID: <473CC42C.2080601@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:11:56 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Peter Zijlstra , Bron Gondwana , Christian Kujau , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , robm@fastmail.fm, riel , Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: mmap dirty limits on 32 bit kernels (Was: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs) References: <20071113.043207.44732743.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113110259.44c56d42.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113130411.26ccae12.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071115040708.GB15302@brong.net> <20071115052538.GA21522@brong.net> <20071115115049.GA8297@brong.net> <1195155601.22457.25.camel@lappy> <1195159457.22457.35.camel@lappy> <1195162015.22457.52.camel@lappy> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2007 22:12:00.0566 (UTC) FILETIME=[8B6B1560:01C827D4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So the _only_ explanation today for 12GB on a 32-bit machine is > (a) insanity > or > (b) being so lazy as to not bother to upgrade > and in either case, my personal reaction is "I'm *not* crazy, and yes, I'm > lazy too, and I can't give a rats *ss about those problems". How about... c) they bought it at the beginning of a project and are stuck with it because they aren't getting any more money for hardware d) they've shipped it to the field and have to support it We've got some 32-bit 8GB boxes for which both of these would hold true. Chris - 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/