Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754697AbZJESni (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:43:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754623AbZJESnh (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:43:37 -0400 Received: from winds.org ([68.75.195.9]:54207 "EHLO winds.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754588AbZJESnh (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:43:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:42:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Byron Stanoszek X-X-Sender: gandalf@winds.org To: Jeff Chua cc: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 18 On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Jeff Chua wrote: > Question is ... is there anyway to increase "low mem" without resorting to > migrating to 64bit? (Look... it only has 378MB total low mem vs 850MB on the > 4GB system). I've oracle installed on the 64GB system and it keeps getting > OOMs! I have some installations using a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit OS (including Oracle). This setup works really well and lets you use all available memory. You don't even have to upgrade your OS; just swap out the kernel. -Byron -- 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/