Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> 
> I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era
> kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of
> lowmem.  
> 
> The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23
> Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged.  Should
> I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box?
> 

A good amount of the VM was merged into 2.4.23-pre3, so the -aa patches against
pre6 should show you what is missing.

That said, I have seen a report that no stock 2.4 kernel would run well >
4GB memory until 2.4.23, but he didn't say how much memory he had.

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