Hi,
Theres a bug filed against gentoo-sources-2.6 which causes the system to be
unreliable when running the 64GB highmem option. This bug isn't present in the
vanilla kernels so it must be caused by one of the patches we apply, but I
don't know which this might be.
To see this bug, you need to have _some_ highmem in the system (this means >=
1GB total physical RAM), be running on x86 (other arches dont have HIGHMEM
option), and have the 64GB high memory support option enabled. (4gb is fine,
as is lowmem)
I've had this bug reproduced by a few different people, but none of them with
enough time to help me diagnose this. I only have 512mb myself so I can't help.
If anyone has the appropriate hardware and some time to spare slowly reverting
out the Gentoo patches to help diagnose the problem, please take a look at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101359
Thanks!
Daniel
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