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 1EAiKW-0007dh-C7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:13:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j816ATpt004267; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:10:29 GMT Received: from mail.t-systems.cz (mail.t-systems.cz [212.67.76.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81652st029534 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:05:02 GMT Received: from mefisto.t-systems.cz (faust.t-systems.cz [10.246.110.12]) by mail.t-systems.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A413899BD for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from andre.t-systems.cz ([10.246.112.240]) by mefisto.t-systems.cz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:07:19 +0200 Received: andre.t-systems.cz 10.246.112.240 from 10.246.112.176 10.246.112.176 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.5.6944 Received: from frankies by andre.t-systems.cz; 01 Sep 2005 08:07:26 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel? From: Frank Schafer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1125501827.20225.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> References: <1125501827.20225.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:07:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1125554845.5877.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 2.2.1.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Sep 2005 06:07:19.0999 (UTC) FILETIME=[6960B4F0:01C5AEBB] X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-5.846, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: frank.schafer@t-systems.cz X-Archives-Salt: 8dcdda82-2639-44b3-aa7a-ad4653c6b620 X-Archives-Hash: 0008871286f3e2afcdb0f1a6eaeb6d90 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list