Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >But if you look at the 2.4.20 kernels in woody-proposed-updates you > >will find a precompiled kernel that does have CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G > >enabled. > > I'm not familiar with woody-proposed-updates. Does it imply

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:20:10AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Be aware that there are some _nasty_ bugs in the 2.4 kernel's with > high IO load machines with more than 1GB of memory. I have 4 > machines in production with 4GB RAM, dual CPU, and 320GB to 1.4TB > RAIDs, and performance was _horr

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Stuart Johnston said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Stuart Johnston wrote: > > > >>I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers > >>using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. > > > > > >Should work very nicely. > > > > So far t

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Stuart Johnston
Bob Proulx wrote: Stuart Johnston wrote: I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. So far they seem a little slower than had I hoped (particularly the RAID 5). But then they have been r

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Stuart Johnston wrote: > I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers > using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. > It looks like the standard kernel images in Debian stable do not support > the 2GB of RAM. The 2.4.18 kernel in wood

Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-23 Thread Stuart Johnston
I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. It looks like the standard kernel images in Debian stable do not support the 2GB of RAM. I'd like to avoid compiling my own kernel images if possible but it looks like th