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Re: stability problems with CONFIG_HIGHMEM



On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 14:50, vinai wrote:
> This might be a problem with your RAM.  I've been using CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> for several kernel releases now (in fact, it was THE reason I went from
> the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series) and have had no stability issues with
> 1G of RAM (machine is an Old World 8500, G3/375 MHz CPU).  Been using
> this option since ~ 2.4.16 and am currently at 2.4.21 ...

I am also using HIGHMEM for quite a while without beeing able to kernel
panic/freeze the machine... but I am on 15" G4 1G...

> Is there a RAM tester for non x86 architectures ?

there is memtester ... not as good as memtest86 but better than nothing

Soeren



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