Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-11-04 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Norman Carver wrote: I have a number of machines with 1.5-2GB of ram on them, and have been running the Enterprise (himem) kernels on them (starting with MDK 8.0). We have had no problems that I would blame on the Enterprise kernels. In fact, the only problems we have had were memory corruption

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-11-01 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Peter Magnusson wrote: 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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-11-01 Thread Norman Carver
I have a number of machines with 1.5-2GB of ram on them, and have been running the Enterprise (himem) kernels on them (starting with MDK 8.0). We have had no problems that I would blame on the Enterprise kernels. In fact, the only problems we have had were memory corruption problems with MDK 8.2,

RE: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-11-01 Thread Bill Shirley
spontaneous reboots - replaced with 400W). Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Norman Carver Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM I have

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Magnusson
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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Magnusson
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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Magnusson
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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Magnusson
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 -/+

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-29 Thread andre
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 21:35, Peter Magnusson wrote: 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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
andre wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 22:59, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: smp and highmem, and highmem are still a little buggy, if you look at some of the posts last month, several people had problems with the highmem kernels. btw. do you really need the highmem kernel for 1024 MB ram? I

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread Larry Nguyen
Peter Magnusson wrote: What exactly is the difference between the enterprise kernel and the normal kernel? Only highmem? High mem and SMP AFAIK. It does say what the differences are during the installation process. Might be a little bit too late for your but FYI. -Larry

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread danny
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, 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. 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

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread andre
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 patchs in the case of memory2GB

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, 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. | | |There was an error when generating initrd try to do a :

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
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. I tried this: [rootgauss root]# rpm -ivh kernel-enterprise-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...###

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-22 Thread andre
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 22:59, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: smp and highmem, and highmem are still a little buggy, if you look at some of the posts last month, several people had problems with the highmem kernels. btw. do you really need the highmem kernel for 1024 MB ram? I thought that the