Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22

From: Stephan von Krawczynski
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 05:14:14 EST


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:58:45 +0200
Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:08:18PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:14:07PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > Can you please give 2.4.23-pre4 a short test. I think I can see a
> > > remarkable difference tp 2.4.22 and would like to find confirmation ...
> >
> > Well, I tried but the aic7xxx does not work for me, see other mail.
> > I'll try again once the LUN enumeration is fixed.
>
> Actually I had booted the wrong kernel (2.6.0t4) by mistake. SCSI
> works, and there is indeed a remarkable difference. The system holds
> perfectly under filled-ram, high i/o usage now. Excellent.

Fine. So we seem to agree 2.4.23 will be another big hit in the 2.4 line :-)

> Now if only the CPU enumeration worked and both CPUs were detected...

Hm, I have not yet seen any configuration where multiple CPUs are not detected.
Are you sure you have compiled in SMP support? What does dmesg look like?

Regards,
Stephan
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