On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:03:33PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: > Could I avoid all of this messing around if I had a server that could run > amd64? How would a dual processor 1.8 Opteron 244 w/4GB ram compare to this > 2.4GHZ dual XEON w/4GB ram? Bog knows I don't need another server, but...
amd64 is a pmap-direct arch, so the pv-entries don't come from kmem-map. You would indeed not have this problem on that arch. Ciao, -- Ariane