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From: Jeff Walter <jeffw@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with >=1GB RAM (and some time to spare)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:47:28
Message-Id: 431783F1.2020208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Need an x86 tester with >=1GB RAM (and some time to spare) by Daniel Drake
1 Daniel Drake wrote:
2 > To see this bug, you need to have _some_ highmem in the system (this
3 > means >= 1GB total physical RAM), be running on x86 (other arches dont
4 > have HIGHMEM option), and have the 64GB high memory support option
5 > enabled. (4gb is fine, as is lowmem)
6
7 I currently have 1GB of RAM with the 4GB HIMEM on 2.6.12-gentoo-r9. I
8 can play with it.
9
10 > I've had this bug reproduced by a few different people, but none of them
11 > with enough time to help me diagnose this. I only have 512mb myself so I
12 > can't help.
13
14 Sounds like it's time to upgrade ;-)
15
16 > If anyone has the appropriate hardware and some time to spare slowly
17 > reverting out the Gentoo patches to help diagnose the problem, please
18 > take a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101359
19
20 I can definitely do that on one of my days off work (Mondays and
21 Tuesdays). Shouldn't be terribly difficult with the newer, smaller
22 patchset.
23
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25 Jeff Walter
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