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* [gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
@ 2008-03-19 20:47 Strong Cypher
  2008-03-19 21:10 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
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From: Strong Cypher @ 2008-03-19 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

hi
i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent
in 32 bits
i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of mem
it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only
free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem
any try to use more fail in db2

somebody have an clue for me?
thanks
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* Re: [gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
  2008-03-19 20:47 [gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode Strong Cypher
@ 2008-03-19 21:10 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
  2008-03-19 21:23   ` [gentoo-user] " Strong Cypher
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Etaoin Shrdlu @ 2008-03-19 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote:
> hi
> i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent
> in 32 bits
> i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of
> mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only
> free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem
> any try to use more fail in db2

Did you enable CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G when building the 
kernel?

One of them if not both surely is needed to see all your memory.
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* [gentoo-user] Re: OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
  2008-03-19 21:10 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
@ 2008-03-19 21:23   ` Strong Cypher
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Strong Cypher @ 2008-03-19 21:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

yeah i m sure
i see 4g but only 800m (lowmem) is used
i really dont know why
i wondering if for use himem programs need to do somethink

On 3/19/08, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote:
> > hi
> > i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent
> > in 32 bits
> > i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of
> > mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only
> > free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem
> > any try to use more fail in db2
>
> Did you enable CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G when building the
> kernel?
>
> One of them if not both surely is needed to see all your memory.
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>
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