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Status of sendfile() + HIGHMEM

DISCUSSION H. Peter Anvin 3 participants 5 messages Nov 28, 2001 – Nov 29, 2001 Memory management

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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...

-hpa

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Quoted 9 lines · H. Peter Anvin

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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Quoted 6 lines · Jeff Garzik
Quoted 4 lines · H. Peter Anvin

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.

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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 :)

You're right, of course. Unfortunately, beggars can't be choosers. :(

-hpa

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Quoted 5 lines · H. Peter Anvin

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.

What sort of NIC is it using?
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Quoted 10 lines · Andrew Morton
Quoted 5 lines · H. Peter Anvin

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.

What sort of NIC is it using?

eepro100.

-hpa

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