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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:21:59 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.x ram issues?
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On Feb 13, 2002  11:05 -0800, Eugene Chupkin wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > The other possibility with that much RAM is that the page tables are taking
> > up all of the low RAM.  Andrea has a patch to put the page tables into
> > higmem in the recent -aa kernels.
> 
> I got it, the 2.4.18pre2aa2/pte-highmem-5 but I can't seem to figure out
> what to patch this on, I tried patching it on to 2.2.17, 2.2.18-pre1,
> and 2.2.18-pre2. On all those I get a Hunk failed. Any feedback is
> appreciated.

You may need to use a whole bunch of -aa patches to get it to apply.  In
general, the -aa tree is tuned for large machines such as yours, so you
are probably better off getting the whole thing.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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