Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> Oh... Jens just pointed bounce buffering is needed for the upper 2Gs. 
>> 
>> Maybe you have a SCSI card+disks to test ? 8)
> 
> Well, I do understand the bounce buffer problem, but honestly the current way
> of handling the situation seems questionable at least. If you ever tried such a
> system you notice it is a lot worse than just dumping the additional ram above
> 4GB. You can really watch your network connections go bogus which is just
> unacceptable. Is there any thinkable way to ommit the bounce buffers and still
> do something useful with the beyond-4GB ram parts?
> We should not leave the current bad situation as is...

It won't need to bounce buffer if you have a decent driver & hardware.

M.

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