Re: More memory == better?

J Sloan (jjs@lexus.com)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:36:05 -0700


DevilKin wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:49, bill davidsen wrote:
>
> > Just remember that to use this memory you need a large memory kernel.
>
> Ah, thats with HIGHMEM support? I've read a lot of awful things about it
> here... how stable (aka usable) is it?

I have 2 observations -

If you don't enable highmem support, you'll
be able to use about 960 MB of your 1 GB -
no big loss, right?

I've been running on a couple machines
with SMP and the 4 GB option, and they
seem quite stable (there was a highmem
bug in the preempt patch, but that is fixed
in the most recent release)

All things considered, it works quite well.

cu

jjs

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