Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob Woodruff wrote: > > > There definitely needs to be a mechanism to prevent people from pinning > > too much memory. > > Any limit would have to be very high - definitely more than just half. What > if the > application needs to pin 2GB? The customer is not going to buy 4+ GB of RAM > just because > Linux doesn't like pinning more than half. In an x86-32 system, that would > required PAE > support and slow everything down. > > Off the top of my head, I'd say Linux would need to allow all but 512MB to be > pinned. So > you have 3GB of RAM, Linux should allow you to pin 2.5GB. >
You can pin the whole darn lot *if you have the correct privileges*. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
