Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22

[Timothy Miller]

Alan Cox wrote:
> The kernel has no idea what you will do with given ram. It does try to
> make some guesses but you are basically trying to paper over hardware
> limits.


Maybe not what you WILL DO, but what you HAVE DONE.  Those tasks which 
have done the most DMA-requiring I/O could get preference for low 
memory.  No?

Yeah, I know.. show you the code.  :)

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