Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753947Ab0ADUL0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:11:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753877Ab0ADULX (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:11:23 -0500 Received: from 77.49.214.220.dsl.dyn.forthnet.gr ([77.49.214.220]:40450 "EHLO poseidon.vergina.dyndns.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753083Ab0ADULW (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:11:22 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 609 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:11:22 EST Message-ID: <4B424903.1000808@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:01:07 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091229 Thunderbird/3.0 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: Joshua Murphy , LKML Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported References: <4B3B3043.20400@asyr.hopto.org> <200912301208.54359.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <4B3B38F2.6090006@asyr.hopto.org> <4B3CF04E.8070603@asyr.hopto.org> <4B406CDF.7010301@asyr.hopto.org> <4B4138AB.3060602@asyr.hopto.org> <4B422A86.3070805@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <4B422A86.3070805@asyr.hopto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 33 on 01/04/2010 07:51 PM Thanasis wrote the following: > on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: >> 2010/1/3 Thanasis : >> >>> on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >>> >>>> Thanasis writes: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >>>>> >>>> This "EMBEDDED" just means "don't touch these unless you really know >>>> what you're doing". >>>> >>>> BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2 GB : 2 GB on server-class machines, >>>> before they were upgraded to x86-64. >>>> >>>> >>> Do you mean that I should try it? Is there any gain over using >>> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G ? >>> >> Likely nothing noticeable, but here's a bit of a good coverage of the topic: >> >> http://kerneltrap.org/node/6067 >> > Thanks, I think I'll give it a try. :-) I tried option: 2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory), but X would not start. So i reverted back to CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. -- 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/