Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 20:32 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > 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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

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

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

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

[gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

[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.