Re: Enterprise Kernel
> > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB.
> > ...on one machine with 4 Xeons, 4.5GB RAM.
Did you also enable PAE mode for 36-bit addressing? Technically you're
only seeing 4.2 Gb (2^32) on that Xeon box even with highmem enabled,
right?
Or would the drawbacks of larger VM tables outweigh having the additional
0.3 Gb of memory?
Tyler
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Tyler F. Creelan
College of Engineering
Oregon State University
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, David De Graff wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Cheong Shu Yang" <patrickcheong@rhb.com.my>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Cc: <herbert@debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 6:01 PM
> Subject: Enterprise Kernel
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It's been awhile since I last wrote to the list. Anyway, let's get down
> > to it...
> >
> >
> > I work at a securities firm (securities as in stock market). Most, if
> > not all, of our backoffice systems run on Linux (some M$, Solaris and
> > HP-UX). The majority of the Linux installs are RH 7.x whilst the
> > remaining are Debian :-). As most of the machines installed are
> > enterprise-class boxes i.e. 4 Xeon CPUS, 4GB RAM, >72GB HDD, Gigabit
> > NICs, etc., the default kernels shipped in Potato/Woody may not be built
> > to meet the needs of these machines. E.g. The default kernels shipped
> > were not compiled to map RAM above 1GB....as I recently discovered when
> > I ran top and free on one machine with 4 Xeons, 4.5GB RAM and 36.4GB
> > mirrored hardisks.
> >
> > I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans
> > to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this
> > would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it
> > comes to the enterprise...maybe calling it
> > kernel-image-2.4.18-868-smp-enterprise or something...
> >
> > Thoughts anyone?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Patrick
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