Hi,
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.
Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
Are you sure? I've nuked them from the copy I have here.. Anything after 1.27 should no longer have anything bigmem related in it.
thanks,
Dave
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:56:57PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.
Thanks for clarifying. It's good to see less kernel flavours covering more setups.
Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
Are you sure? I've nuked them from the copy I have here.. Anything after 1.27 should no longer have anything bigmem related in it.
I was looking at the 2.4.x kernel, but rawhide's 2.6 (1.24) is also still carrying it. Not a true issue, IMHO.
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:07, Axel Thimm wrote:
Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
Are you sure? I've nuked them from the copy I have here.. Anything after 1.27 should no longer have anything bigmem related in it.
I was looking at the 2.4.x kernel, but rawhide's 2.6 (1.24) is also still carrying it. Not a true issue, IMHO.
I've only made the change in the 2.6 kernel right now. rawhide's 2.6 should be on soon.
Dave
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:56, Dave Jones wrote:
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.
Does this mean that the -smp kernels have the overhead associated with bigmem kernels of the past? In the past I was told that the induced overhead of bigmem support made it not worth it until the 6gig~ memory size. 5~ gigs of ram wasn't enough ram to put up w/ the overhead... or am I smoking crack?
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 23:51, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:56, Dave Jones wrote:
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.
Does this mean that the -smp kernels have the overhead associated with bigmem kernels of the past? In the past I was told that the induced overhead of bigmem support made it not worth it until the 6gig~ memory size. 5~ gigs of ram wasn't enough ram to put up w/ the overhead... or am I smoking crack?
It's marginal. There's far bigger measurable overhead with features like selinux than PAE.
Dave