Re: 3.5+0.5GB user/kernel split - supported in EL-3.0??

Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309101709580.6226-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ramki Balasubramanian wrote:

> 	1. Is a non-PAE kernel available for use in RHEL-3.0?
> 	the kernel rpms I see are all labeled "ent" and have the HIGHMEM64
> 	turned on.

Yes. Both the -boot kernel and the UP kernel don't have PAE.

> 	2. Is the 3.5GB/0.5GB patch compatible with redhat's kernel for
> 	RHEL-3.0 release kernel version?

I bet you could fold it into the kernel source if you really
really wanted, but obviously it won't be something that's
going to be supported by Red Hat.

If you want more than 3GB address space for your programs,
you can just use the 4/4 split kernel, which gives you a
full 3.9 GB of program address space...

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan


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