Hi John! You are certainly right that I can (and maybe should) run a real 64bit kernel. I am already in the process of doing it, but there are so many programs to install and configure that it is going to take some time until my 64bit jessie can take over.
But I had the same problem with 4G of RAM. So this is not a "more than 4GBytes of RAM is too much on a 32bit kernel" only problem. I would like to understand why the system becomes unstable. "Too much RAM" sounds too easy. There must be at least one bug to find. And I want to run all my tests on 64bit jessie as well. I have not seen geeqie perform well under that condition yet. Hartmut Am 08.03.2016 um 22:26 schrieb John Stoffel: > Klaus> Am Mo den 7. Mär 2016 um 23:12 schrieb Hartmut Niemann: >>> $ cat /proc/version >>> Linux version 3.16.0-4-686-pae (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version >>> 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) > I really think this is your problem in alot of ways. You have an i686 > kernel (32bit) with the PAE extensions installed because you have 12gb > of RAM in the system. Why aren't you running a x86_64 (64bit) kernel > and userland? You can certainly install the 32bit libraries as well > if you need them for an application. > > But moving to a pure 64bit kernel (can you send the output of cat > /proc/cpuinfo?) with a mixed 64bit/32bit userland (if needed) you'll > get a much bigger address space. > > Now I can certainly see how geeqie, or possibly the toolkit and > libraries, might not handle large amounts of highmem properly on a > 32bit system using PAE. > > In my mind, it's just not worth the hassle. How hard would it be to > install a 64bit kernel on this system? > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval > _______________________________________________ > Geeqie-devel mailing list > Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
