Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756881AbZJFKHO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:07:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756790AbZJFKHN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:07:13 -0400 Received: from pmx1.sophos.com ([213.31.172.16]:59275 "EHLO pmx1.sophos.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756277AbZJFKHM (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:07:12 -0400 From: Tvrtko Ursulin Organization: Sophos Plc To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:06:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Jeff Chua , "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , Tomasz Chmielewski , Daniel J Blueman , Byron Stanoszek , Dave Hansen , Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200910061106.33718.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on Mercury/Servers/Sophos(Release 7.0.3|September 26, 2007) at 06/10/2009 11:06:34, Serialize by Router on Mercury/Servers/Sophos(Release 7.0.3|September 26, 2007) at 06/10/2009 11:06:34, Serialize complete at 06/10/2009 11:06:34 X-TNEFEvaluated: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 23 On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:30:51 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Loud and clear. And appreciated all the replies. I think it's time for > > upgrade! > > As Byron said, it really should be sufficient to just upgrade the kernel > (I presume that you already have a CPU that is 64-bit capable: not very > many boards with old CPU's can even fit 64GB of ram). > > In fact, I wish more people did that, just so that we'd get better > coverage of the 32-bit compat code. We occasionally find issues there, > although I think it's getting rarer. Maybe convince some distro to offer this setup as an option at least? I always wondered why no one has, or maybe I missed it. Tvrtko -- 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/