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Re: Status of sendfile() + HIGHMEM

To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Status of sendfile() + HIGHMEM
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:59:33 -0500
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> 
> zeus.kernel.org is currently running with HIGHMEM turned off, since it
> crashed due to an unfortunate interaction between sendfile() and HIGHMEM
> -- this was using 2.4.10-ac4 or thereabouts.
> 
> The current zeus.kernel.org has 1 GB of RAM, however, it looks like we're
> going to get a 6 GB machine donated.  Clearly HIGHMEM is going to be
> necessary (still an x86 machine, unfortunately), and I wanted to ask if it
> was believed that these problems had been worked out...

Get a 64-bit machine and forget about doing >32bits on a 32-bit machine
:)

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