Re: PAE, mem available to user?

2004-03-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:06:41PM -0800, Peter G wrote: > Thank you for your response > > What i'd like to be able to do on this 5.2.1 machine > is run a user job that may take up 1.5GB of mem, i'd > like it to start swapping which it doesn't do, nor > does it panic, nor does it lock up. It stays

Re: PAE, mem available to user?

2004-03-29 Thread Peter G
Thank you for your response What i'd like to be able to do on this 5.2.1 machine is run a user job that may take up 1.5GB of mem, i'd like it to start swapping which it doesn't do, nor does it panic, nor does it lock up. It stays responsive. Taking what U said i recompiled the kernel as a non PAE

Re: PAE, mem available to user?

2004-03-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:06:17PM -0800, Peter G wrote: > hi all, read thru the archives, esp thru thread: "PAE > testing results ..." from circa May 03. > > I am getting a diffrent problem on a uniProc machine. > with 5.2.1 and a stock PAE build. > > machine is stable and does not crash, but t

PAE, mem available to user?

2004-03-27 Thread Peter G
hi all, read thru the archives, esp thru thread: "PAE testing results ..." from circa May 03. I am getting a diffrent problem on a uniProc machine. with 5.2.1 and a stock PAE build. machine is stable and does not crash, but the big mem user job we want to submit to it, all these jobs die when th