Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Rajkumar S wrote: On 10/24/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rajkumar S wrote: Hello, I am using a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU on an intel DG33FB mother board with 4GB Ram, running Debian Lenny. Since the box has 4 GB ram I compiled a big mem kernel, but the machine is very slow while ru

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:56:12PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > So one thing I don't understand is the difference between CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G > and regular 32-bit. I always thought that 32 bit means 4GB address space > and that the HIGHMEM4G is using your above trick but with 32-bit dma_addr_t > since

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Oct 24 2007 at 18:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> I thought that for 4GB of memory the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is >> not set >> would be enough. >> >> From looking in source code the CONFI

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Boaz Harrosh wrote: From looking in source code the CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is broken in many respects, in my opinion. It's really a 64-bit with 32-bit quirks enabled. Does it even run on None 64-bit machines? Not many! Total and utter bullsh*t. It runs on virtually all modern x86's since the P6

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > I thought that for 4GB of memory the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is > not set > would be enough. > > From looking in source code the CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is broken in many respects, > in my opinion. It's really a 64-bit with 32

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Rajkumar S
On 10/24/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rajkumar S wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU on an intel DG33FB mother board with > > 4GB Ram, running Debian Lenny. > > > > Since the box has 4 GB ram I compiled a big mem kernel, but the > > machine is very slow wh

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Oct 24 2007 at 12:26 +0200, "Rajkumar S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU on an intel DG33FB mother board with > 4GB Ram, running Debian Lenny. > > Since the box has 4 GB ram I compiled a big mem kernel, but the > machine is very slow while running

Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Rajkumar S wrote: Hello, I am using a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU on an intel DG33FB mother board with 4GB Ram, running Debian Lenny. Since the box has 4 GB ram I compiled a big mem kernel, but the machine is very slow while running big mem kernel. It takes about 37 minutes to compile the intel e1000

HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

2007-10-24 Thread Rajkumar S
Hello, I am using a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU on an intel DG33FB mother board with 4GB Ram, running Debian Lenny. Since the box has 4 GB ram I compiled a big mem kernel, but the machine is very slow while running big mem kernel. It takes about 37 minutes to compile the intel e1000 driver (e1000-7.6.5