Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround
On 01/10/2013 05:46 PM, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
>> > ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit
>> > kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing
>> > something that never got merged upstream ...
> Sorry to be so contradictory:
>
> psz@como:~$ uname -a
> Linux como.maths.usyd.edu.au 3.2.32-pk06.10-t01-i386 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 18:34:25 EST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
> psz@como:~$ free -l
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 64446900 4729292 59717608 0 15972 480520
> Low: 375836 304400 71436
> High: 64071064 4424892 59646172
> -/+ buffers/cache: 4232800 60214100
> Swap: 134217724 0 134217724
Hey, that's pretty cool! I would swear that the mem_map[] overhead was
such that they wouldn't boot, but perhaps those brain cells died on me.
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