Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, andre wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 16:18, Peter Magnusson wrote: I have at least 3 boxes that have 1024 MB. I think highmem should be compiled in, in the _default_ MDK kernel. highmem is slower than standard so i am not for it. Besides there are other How much slower? patchs in the case of memory2GB What kind of patches? Are they better?
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: No, he wants all machines (including my P133/32MB box which just runs a firewall) to have the overhead of highmem, just so that weird issues ( I Fine, so install both kernels at install if the installer sees more than 1024 MB RAM. It will be more and more computers that will have 1024 MB RAM or more over the time. would hesisitate to call it a bug) with his own modules.conf (which he fixed fine on his own) can be fixed by others. It took a while before i figured out what the problem was. Why can't he just file a normal bug report like the rest of us? I think it was with MDK 8.0 that i did like 100 bug reports but only got an answer on something like 30 of them. And I wanted to discuss this problem, not just file a bug report for it. And, if he had installed the enterprise kernel during installation, he wouldn't have had such a mangled modules.conf when generating the initrd in the first place. Hmm, i will include kernel-enterprise in my kickstart (autoinstall). But i want to know what the diff. are between the normal kernel and kernel-enterprise. Is it just highmem or is it something more?
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: smp and highmem, and highmem are still a little buggy, if you look at Isnt highmem the only choice if i want to use 1024 MB RAM? I think it would be great if MDK could do a highmem kernel also, not just SMP + HIGHMEM kernel. btw. do you really need the highmem kernel for 1024 MB ram? I thought YES. box1: Mem: 900936K av, 771200K used, 129736K free, 0K shrd, 31220K buff Swap: 538136K av, 632K used, 537504K free 534112K cached box2: Mem: 900940K av, 864860K used, 36080K free, 0K shrd, 52544K buff Swap: 538136K av, 0K used, 538136K free 645524K cached box3: ok, forgot the hostname but its the same :) that the kernel supported up to 1024 MB withouth the highmem kernel anyways, I dont see what your problem has to do with highmem support No, but i wish it did. what's the point of all those aliases anyway? Because when someone login, or whenever it was, something probes for all these, and its quite annoying.
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Actaully it's more than that. A machine with 2GB of ram only sees this without highmem: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:904940 185524 719416 0 84 107520 -/+ buffers/cache: 77920 827020 Swap: 3084400 03084400 We can't run any HIGHMEM kernels cause they hard lock on every machine after minimal use. :( So how do you do to use more memory? Or dont you use it at all? So far no word/help from Mandrake :( :(
[Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM
I have at least 3 boxes that have 1024 MB. I think highmem should be compiled in, in the _default_ MDK kernel. I tried this: [rootgauss root]# rpm -ivh kernel-enterprise-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-enterprise-2.4.1### [100%] No module off found for kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise There was an error when generating initrd try to do a : /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-6mdkenterprise.img 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise and see the errors I had: alias eth1 off alias eth2 off alias eth3 off alias eth4 off alias eth5 off alias eth6 off alias eth7 off alias eth8 off alias eth9 off alias scsi_hostadapter off in /etc/modules.conf. I think this is a bug, mkinitrd should ignore off entrys. If i remove them from modules.conf it works. What exactly is the difference between the enterprise kernel and the normal kernel? Only highmem?
