Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I now could compile the amd64-kernel successfully. I installed it on my machine, rebooted and in the beginning everything seemed fine. But after mounting the root (ext 3) filesystem (or before mounting, I do not know exactly) the machine hangs. The last message I see is: Mounting root

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I now could compile the amd64-kernel successfully. I installed it on my machine, rebooted and in the beginning everything seemed fine. But after mounting the root (ext 3) filesystem (or before mounting, I do not know exactly) the machine hangs. The last message I see is: Mounting root

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:37:46PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > ... > I am also using Debian sarge. I extracted the tarfile to /usr/local/bin > end executed "kmake menuconfig". Everything seemed fine so far. But a > few seconds after starting the compilation (kmake bzImage) I got

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jakob Oestergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is really the clever way to run a 64-bit system - 99% of what is > commonly run on most systems only gains overhead from the 64-bit address > space - tools like postfix, cron, syslog, apache, ... will not gain from > being native 64-bit. For

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:39:55 +0200 Jakob Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Is it possible to compile a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit machine (or > > at least on a 64-bit machine with 32-bit software) and if yes, how > > can I do that? > > Yes. On Debian Sarge, I have a few

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:31:38AM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, ... > > There is no highmem option for the 64-bit kernel, because it doesn't > > need one. > > I have two questions: > > 1. Is it possible to compile a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit machine (or at > least on a 64-bit machine

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: [...] > 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that > software work with a 64-bit kernel? Basically yes. E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectures ATM (at least not on x86-compatibles).

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: [...] > 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that > software work with a 64-bit kernel? Basically yes. E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectuires ATM. Bernd -- Firmix Software

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:05:40 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Pleger wrote: > > At last I found out that setting HIGHMEM support to 64 GB is the > > problem. But is it really not possible to use more than 4GB on an > > Opteron machine? > > Build and boot a 64-bit

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Pleger wrote: At last I found out that setting HIGHMEM support to 64 GB is the problem. But is it really not possible to use more than 4GB on an Opteron machine? Build and boot a 64-bit kernel, not a 32-bit kernel. There is no highmem option for the 64-bit kernel, because it doesn't

10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I had a working kernel configuration for an Opteron machine. Since that configuration was supposed to support many kinds of hardware, it contained many settings that were not optimal for an Opteron machine. So I created a new configuration especially for that machine. But the resulting

10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I had a working kernel configuration for an Opteron machine. Since that configuration was supposed to support many kinds of hardware, it contained many settings that were not optimal for an Opteron machine. So I created a new configuration especially for that machine. But the resulting

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Pleger wrote: At last I found out that setting HIGHMEM support to 64 GB is the problem. But is it really not possible to use more than 4GB on an Opteron machine? Build and boot a 64-bit kernel, not a 32-bit kernel. There is no highmem option for the 64-bit kernel, because it doesn't

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:05:40 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Pleger wrote: At last I found out that setting HIGHMEM support to 64 GB is the problem. But is it really not possible to use more than 4GB on an Opteron machine? Build and boot a 64-bit kernel, not

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: [...] 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that software work with a 64-bit kernel? Basically yes. E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectuires ATM. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: [...] 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that software work with a 64-bit kernel? Basically yes. E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectures ATM (at least not on x86-compatibles).

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:31:38AM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: Hello, ... There is no highmem option for the 64-bit kernel, because it doesn't need one. I have two questions: 1. Is it possible to compile a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit machine (or at least on a 64-bit machine with

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:39:55 +0200 Jakob Oestergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is it possible to compile a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit machine (or at least on a 64-bit machine with 32-bit software) and if yes, how can I do that? Yes. On Debian Sarge, I have a few wrapper scripts

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jakob Oestergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is really the clever way to run a 64-bit system - 99% of what is commonly run on most systems only gains overhead from the 64-bit address space - tools like postfix, cron, syslog, apache, ... will not gain from being native 64-bit. For most

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:37:46PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: Hello, ... I am also using Debian sarge. I extracted the tarfile to /usr/local/bin end executed kmake menuconfig. Everything seemed fine so far. But a few seconds after starting the compilation (kmake bzImage) I got this