On Monday 03 March 2008 01:39:59 pm Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Sorry, didn't follow the whole thread. Thought we were providing rationale for why we wouldn't want to make the Fedora kernel also 64K pages. -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
