Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
it? To be honest, I'm really not sure if a security update, new stable point release, etc. upgrades a kernel what will happen to the symlinks. Since both the standard kernel and the bigmem kernel are stock kernels, chances are that security updates will affect both of them at once. There a

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta writes: >On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > >No. > > my concern is that if I don't, the n

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? No. my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. False, the active kernel is update inste

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:46:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz > with the regular kernel. >

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> "Marc Auslander" : > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace > vmlinuz with the regular kernel. - How did you install your bigmem

bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Auslander
having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. or are the installers smart enough to avoid that?

Running -bigmem kernel on a smallmem machine

2008-07-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ChadDavis wrote: There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone had the solution. Google should find the thread. Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux With

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
ng. Any search terms > suggestsions, other than: > > debian bigmem kernel linux Hmmm. I can't find it either. Is DMA enabled on your disks? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread ChadDavis
> > There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone > had the solution. Google should find the thread. > Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux etc.

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 10:35, ChadDavis wrote: > When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows > to a crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 > minutes to boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows > mach

bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread ChadDavis
When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows to a crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 minutes to boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows machine after that. I don't really need to fix this because I can fall back to the normal vers