From: Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@t-systems.cz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:07:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125554845.5877.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125501827.20225.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net>
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:23 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> [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
>
>
No
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2005-08-31 15:23 [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel? Ow Mun Heng
2005-08-31 18:32 ` Bastian Balthazar Bux
2005-09-02 1:54 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-09-01 6:07 ` Frank Schafer [this message]
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