On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:13:50PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:09:59PM -0500, David Sanders wrote: > > Do we need a 4g4g kernel as the default? Not many people are going to be > > helped anyway. Fedora is the only linux distribution shipping one as far as > > I know and it is not in the upstream kernels. Perhaps it could be an option? > > 4G/4G does seem to help a lot of workloads. The views are split even inside > Red Hat. When it comes to Linux/Linux virtualisation then Xen 2.0 really > makes it irrelevant as Xen uses its own kernel variant anyway Where workload seems to be something other than "light desktop use" or even "light server use". Is there any <=1GB of RAM case where it helps at all? Besides, anyone sane running a memory intensive app will get a x86_64 box where the 4:4 kludgery is not needed. Only good I've seen it do is uncovering driver bugs, which is a worthy goal I suppose. -- Pekka Pietikainen
