Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
[slightly reformatted due] On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:20:13AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > All, > > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 09:46, Edward Guldemond wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > > > > > > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RA

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-21 Thread Tyler F. Creelan
> > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. > > ...on one machine with 4 Xeons, 4.5GB RAM. Did you also enable PAE mode for 36-bit addressing? Technically you're only seeing 4.2 Gb (2^32) on that Xeon box even with highmem enabled, right? Or would the drawbacks of larger VM table

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-20 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans > to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this > would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it > come

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-20 Thread nate
Patrick Cheong Shu Yang said: > Hi all, > Thoughts anyone? my most immediate thought is my belief that anyone who runs such a server should be running a self compiled kernel anyways. every system I deploy goes with a very custom kernel with many patches depending on the kind of hardware and what

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-20 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
All, That is exactly what I didbut that would not be what a SysAdm would want...he/she would want to just select an 'enterprise' kernel from the package list. One has to bear in mind that not all SysAdm know how to re-compile a kernel...and using kernel-package to do it...:-P If the Debian

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans > to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this > would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it > come