From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAUr8-0002kb-HK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:50:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VFjMF4027266; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:45:22 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([218.111.16.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VFLZl7007619 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:21:36 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VFNlN9014378 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:23:47 +0800 Subject: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel? From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:23:46 +0800 Message-Id: <1125501827.20225.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6ae3caaf-f92e-47d0-8e72-a32582b1ae0c X-Archives-Hash: 77c53da9a8d62dce639975964ae00e7a [quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. [/quote] I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:23:18 up 3:33, 5 users, load average: 0.20, 0.70, 1.11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list