[gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with >=1GB RAM (and some time to spare)

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

Theres a bug filed against gentoo-sources-2.6 which causes the system to be 
unreliable when running the 64GB highmem option. This bug isn't present in the 
vanilla kernels so it must be caused by one of the patches we apply, but I 
don't know which this might be.

To see this bug, you need to have _some_ highmem in the system (this means >= 
1GB total physical RAM), be running on x86 (other arches dont have HIGHMEM 
option), and have the 64GB high memory support option enabled. (4gb is fine, 
as is lowmem)

I've had this bug reproduced by a few different people, but none of them with 
enough time to help me diagnose this. I only have 512mb myself so I can't help.

If anyone has the appropriate hardware and some time to spare slowly reverting 
out the Gentoo patches to help diagnose the problem, please take a look at 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101359

Thanks!
Daniel
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