On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 07:54 +0900, MinChan Kim wrote: > > * Rik van Riel (riel@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > [....] > > > The second option is to rewrite part of the VM so less > > > metadata is kept for page cache. Specifically, you will > > > have to write code to reclaim buffer heads from page > > > cache pages. > > > > Do You mean current page reclaim mechanism have a problem ? > > Only on insane installations. > > > As you know, kernel already have reclaimed fs-specific metadata. > > What is a problem? > > That people run a 32bit x86 kernel with 64GB RAM on x86_64 hardware > (obviously - 32bit cannot address 64GB RAM anyways) with no good reason. On Intel Pentium III and later it can, using PAE and/or PSE 36 bit physical addresses. > > Bernd > -- > Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
