Josh Boyer (jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx) 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. OK, then. Why would we explicitly make people build under a combination that isn't in Fedora (that they can't reproduce in Fedora) that can cause their build to fail (for whatever reason)? Do we appreciate being cruel? Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
