Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753550AbXKUVZY (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:25:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751875AbXKUVZK (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:25:10 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:54407 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751742AbXKUVZJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:25:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:25:07 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linux Kernel Mailing List cc: Linus Torvalds , Bron Gondwana , Christian Kujau , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , robm@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: mmap dirty limits on 32 bit kernels (Was: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1457 Lines: 36 On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:47:54 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: > >But quite frankly, I refuse to even care about anything past that. If >you have 12G (or heaven forbid, even more) in your machine, and you >can't be bothered to just upgrade to a 64-bit CPU, then quite frankly, >*I* personally can't be bothered to care. > >If they have that much RAM (and bought it a few years ago when a 64-bit >CPU wasn't an option), they can't be poor. > >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 > Just around the corner... $ ftp ftp Connected to ftp.gwdg.de. 220-==================================================================== 220-Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen 220-==================================================================== 220-This is a Linux PC (Dell PE-2650, 2 CPUs P4/2800, 12 GB RAM) 220-running SuSE-Linux-8.2 with SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP. There is no reason to upgrade the hardware - if it works, hey good then. And I am pretty sure that a few 2 GB sticks are cheaper than a big opteron (if you only go by that). It sure is now - and probably even back then. - 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/