On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:12:10 -0500 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2008 12:25:24 pm Bill Nottingham wrote: > > David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > For 4KiB pages: > > > - Makes life 'easier' for PPC builds, to stop people whining about it > > > finding their bugs for them. > > > - Consistent with what we actually ship in Fedora. > > > > - wastes less memory on lower-mem ppc machines. Not that this should be a > > dealbreaker, but it's something to think about. > > Yeah, that's definitely an issue. Some of the ppc boxes in our internal test > setup have "only" 1G of RAM, and when the system is under load[*], you can > run out of free pages and start oom-killing stuff pretty quick w/64k pages... > > [*] http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/scrashme/scrashme.git/ I think you're both slightly confused. This is for switching the _builders_ back to a 4KiB page kernel. Not Fedora, which is already 4KiB pages. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
