Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:27:46PM +, Jo Shields wrote: 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory. PAE gives you 64 GiB physical memory on 32-bit processors that support it. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:18:36PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: I wish this were always true. I tried to get rid of the memory hole, but then my nice 64 bit Linux kernel would crash (or better get in an infinite loop) upon initialising the Yukon Gigabit Ethernet NIC (i.e. immediately after

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Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned}

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:39 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, Do 'apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common', then run module assistant (m-a) as already suggest on this list. I've done it several times, and it worked. i tried to run m-a but the compilation ended with an

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote: Try using the skge driver instead of sk98lin. Thanks for the hint, I tried and indeed obtained a little improvement: it does not hang as with sk98lin. However it still fails to initialise properly, any trial to connect to anything via that NIC yields a

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote: Try using the skge driver instead of sk98lin. Thanks for the hint, I tried and indeed obtained a little improvement: it does not hang as with sk98lin. However it still fails to initialise

Weird behavior of df with BLOCK_SIZE=

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Hartge
(Please Cc: me on answers, as I am not subscribed to debian-adm64. Thanks.) Hi. I am currently struck by a _very_ weird bug of df on Sarge-AMD64 with coreutils-5.2.1-2. Note the randomly changing output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# while sleep 1; do BLOCK_SIZE= df --portability /; done Filesystem

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Maybe there is nowhere to map the card's buffers into the bottom 4Gb of RAM when you have 4Gb of real RAM available. (This would seem to be a problem with all PCI cards plus AGP cards etc but maybe most systems or cards have a workaround?) Google has

Re: Weird behavior of df with BLOCK_SIZE=

2006-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: I am currently struck by a _very_ weird bug of df on Sarge-AMD64 with coreutils-5.2.1-2. Note the randomly changing output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# while sleep 1; do BLOCK_SIZE= df --portability /; done Interesting. Couldn't find

Re: Weird behavior of df with BLOCK_SIZE=

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Um 23:36 Uhr am 08.11.06 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: I am currently struck by a _very_ weird bug of df on Sarge-AMD64 with coreutils-5.2.1-2. Note the randomly changing output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# while sleep 1; do BLOCK_SIZE= df

Re: Weird behavior of df with BLOCK_SIZE=

2006-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: Um 23:36 Uhr am 08.11.06 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: Suggest backporting coreutils or upgrading to etch... Upgrading to Etch is not an option right now, backporting coreutils might work. An officially fixed package would be the best

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:10:13PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config to many places without success. Well I don't know what to say about that, I've installed VMWare on numerous machines with custom and Debian kernels and the

Re: mosix and debian amd64

2006-11-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Have anybody heared about some mosix or open-mosix kernel for debian amd 64? When I searched the package list on debian.org I have found only some mosix kernel in oldstable dist (for i386 only). Maby there is some unofficial one? Or maby there

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:07:56PM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: Well, I personally have been trying debian kernels for a couple of weeks. A machine that has been running Debian/unstable with custom kernels for the last couple of years and always has been very stable, now is not detecting the

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:02:36AM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: Thanks for the link, but: -the machine having problems is not running a 64bit kernel -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config to many places without success. /usr/src/linux-headers-x.y.z-w/include

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
You will also want to install nvidia-glx after running module assistant. but nvidia-glx is not available in etch. i had to use unstable version when installing amd64 etch desktop. any hints? what am i doing wrong? This is caused by a stupid packaging error that remains to be fixed Type cat

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:27:46PM +, Jo Shields wrote: 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory. PAE gives you 64 GiB physical memory on 32-bit processors that support it. Yes, but a 32-bit OS still can't use it. Or can

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Matthias Julius wrote: Yes, but a 32-bit OS still can't use it. Or can it? Yes the OS can, but single apps will usually still see = 4Gbytes, unless they do a lot of (slow) black magic. Therefore, if you need a lot of memory overall because you need to run a huge number of

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, After installing an appropriate gcc package to match your running kernel, the nvidia-kernel-source package can successfully create an nvidia-kernel-$FOO package to match your system. nvidia-glx cannot install without an appropriate nvidia-kernel package (which is what module-assistant

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:46 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: You will also want to install nvidia-glx after running module assistant. but nvidia-glx is not available in etch. i had to use unstable version when installing amd64 etch desktop. any hints? what am i doing wrong? This is caused

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 17:38 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, After installing an appropriate gcc package to match your running kernel, the nvidia-kernel-source package can successfully create an nvidia-kernel-$FOO package to match your system. nvidia-glx cannot install without an

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:25:30AM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Yes, but a 32-bit OS still can't use it. Or can it? A 32bit OS with PAE support can use the ram, but you are still limited to 32bit memory space per application. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

purging linux-image-2.6.18.1

2006-11-08 Thread Seb
Hi, A bug seems to have crept in linux-image-2.6.18-1-amd64 so that purging the package fails with the error: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-1-amd64 (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128 Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 01:08 am, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:27:46PM +, Jo Shields wrote: 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory. PAE gives you 64 GiB physical memory on 32-bit processors that support it. Yes, but each process is still

Re: purging linux-image-2.6.18.1

2006-11-08 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi I have had such problems several times and I have always resolved them by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status by hand, setting the status of the corresponding package to not-installed. This has worked but it is not the preferred solution. If anyone knows a better solution please tell.

Re: mosix and debian amd64

2006-11-08 Thread Sythos
Il Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:26:00 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: Hi. Have anybody heared about some mosix or open-mosix kernel for debian amd 64? When I searched the package list on debian.org I have found only some mosix kernel in oldstable dist (for i386 only). Maby there is some unofficial

Re: purging linux-image-2.6.18.1

2006-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
[Eek. Top-posting evil!] On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:05:25PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Þann Miðvikudagur 08 nóvember 2006 19:41 skrifaði Seb: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-1-amd64 (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128 Errors were

Re: purging linux-image-2.6.18.1

2006-11-08 Thread Sergio Mendoza
Hi, On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:05:25PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I have had such problems several times and I have always resolved them by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status by hand, setting the status of the corresponding package to not-installed. This has worked but it is

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Skutt
Emmanuel Fleury wrote: Couldn't it be kernel-space that would not be visible from user-space ? No, because that is virtual and this is physical. The limitations on the two are totally independent. Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Skutt
Christian Hammers wrote: The is a kernel version called linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp or so, try that. The -generic has maybe some options set that are not optimal for your system. Impossible, as there aren't any options on x86_64 that control how much physical memory you'll see (unlike IA-32).

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Skutt
Jo Shields wrote: 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory. Wrong. IA-32 processors have had 36 address lines since PAE was added. That's what CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G does for IA-32 kernels, BTW. It turns on PAE support. However, there's an additional limitation as all

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Skutt
Freddie Cash fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca writes: On Wednesday 08 November 2006 01:08 am, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:27:46PM +, Jo Shields wrote: 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory. PAE gives you 64 GiB physical memory on 32-bit