On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Eugene Chupkin wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > On Feb 13, 2002 11:05 -0800, Eugene Chupkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > > The other possibility with that much RAM is that the page tables are taking
> > > > up all of the low RAM. Andrea has a patch to put the page tables into
> > > > higmem in the recent -aa kernels.
> > >
> > > I got it, the 2.4.18pre2aa2/pte-highmem-5 but I can't seem to figure out
> > > what to patch this on, I tried patching it on to 2.2.17, 2.2.18-pre1,
> > > and 2.2.18-pre2. On all those I get a Hunk failed. Any feedback is
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > You may need to use a whole bunch of -aa patches to get it to apply. In
> > general, the -aa tree is tuned for large machines such as yours, so you
> > are probably better off getting the whole thing.
> >
>
> Whola!!! This fixed my problem. CONFIG_HIGHIO did it. So my kernel is lets
> see here... 2.4.18pre2aa2+pte-highmem-5. I hope this will be included in
> the 2.4.18 final. Thanks for all your help.
>
I am still having problems even with that kernel, it appears that the
memory that is taken is not given back, after a few hours the load
shoots up, the system gets really slow and then it crashes.. Solutions,
ideas?
Thanks.
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