William Lee Irwin III recently announced on the lkml that he’d successfully gotten Linux running on a 64GB x86 server.
His posts included two different boot message logs, one without his page clustering patch, and one with. In the latter case, his patch overcomes the
1GB mem_map virtual space limitation imposed by x86 32-bit servers, without which the kernel over-runs allowable memory space.
His posts included two different boot message logs, one without his page clustering patch, and one with. In the latter case, his patch overcomes the
1GB mem_map virtual space limitation imposed by x86 32-bit servers, without which the kernel over-runs allowable memory space.
Link: kerneltrap.org
