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Re: The 4GB memory thing

To: nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk (Neil Conway)
Subject: Re: The 4GB memory thing
From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:09:37 -0800 (PST)
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
In-Reply-To: <99Nov3.094606gmt.66315@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> from "Neil Conway" at Nov 3, 99 09:48:11 am
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> The recent thread about >4GB surprised me, as I didn't even think >2GB
> was very stable yet.  Am I wrong?  Are people out there using 4GB boxes
> with decent stability?  I presume it's a 2.3 feature, yes?
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance, I guess I've been dozing a bit of late.
> 
> Neil

I have a 2.2 patch for 4Gb support, which has seen a lot of stress
testing by now. The 2.3 >2gb support uses a different (and better
approach), but last I checked, things like rawio did not work above
>2Gb. The 64Gb support is completely new ...

Kanoj
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References:
- The 4GB memory thing
  - From: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>

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