Re: [gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with =1GB RAM (and some time to spare)

2005-09-02 Thread Jeff Walter
Ok... Linux oneill 2.6.13-gentoo-hugemem #3 Fri Sep 2 11:41:01 PDT 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Linux version 2.6.13-gentoo-hugemem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #3 Fri Sep 2

[gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with =1GB RAM (and some time to spare)

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with =1GB RAM (and some time to spare)

2005-09-01 Thread Jeff Walter
Daniel Drake wrote: 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 currently have 1GB of RAM