Re: 3ware and hugemem
Jeffrey Siegal <[email protected]>
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Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 08:57 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: >>> I have a database server I need to boost the memory in (it currently has >>> 3GB installed) and I was going to take it to 8GB until I remembered that >>> RH pulled support of the 3ware drivers out of the hugemem kernel (it is >>> still available in the unsupported hugemen kernel). >> Hi, >> >> you don't really need the hugemem kernel for 8gb; the normal smp kernel >> will support 8gb just fine... > > Ah. I had forgotten that the limit for the base smp kernels had been > raised from 4GB at some point. My bad. Thanks for the reminder. I remember reading somewhere that the regular kernel is preferred for up to about 12GB. Its a performance issue so it probably depends on workload and such. -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list