Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Alan, 2.4.5-ac2 works fine with 4GB on. Thanks! Will try a 2.4.5-aa2 later today, just for fun. Grtz, Ben On 27 May 2001, at 22:21, Alan Cox wrote: > > I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option > > and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Alan, 2.4.5-ac2 works fine with 4GB on. Thanks! Will try a 2.4.5-aa2 later today, just for fun. Grtz, Ben On 27 May 2001, at 22:21, Alan Cox wrote: I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
> > mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers. > > Indeed this message has been pestering me in all the recent .4-acx kernels when > the machine is under heavy FS pressure. > > In these kernels I observe a significative (5-10%) performance degradation as > soon as the FS cache fills up all the

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
> I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option > and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by > schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. > Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. > > 2.4.5 works

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Same here, I have a dual 1GHz PIII with 4G, I don't get an oops but an infinite loop of: > mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers. Indeed this message has been pestering me in all the recent .4-acx kernels when the machine is under heavy FS pressure. In these kernels I observe a

2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Hi, I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. 2.4.5 works fine

2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Hi, I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. 2.4.5 works fine

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Same here, I have a dual 1GHz PIII with 4G, I don't get an oops but an infinite loop of: mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers. Indeed this message has been pestering me in all the recent .4-acx kernels when the machine is under heavy FS pressure. In these kernels I observe a significative

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. 2.4.5 works fine

Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers. Indeed this message has been pestering me in all the recent .4-acx kernels when the machine is under heavy FS pressure. In these kernels I observe a significative (5-10%) performance degradation as soon as the FS cache fills up all the available