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From: Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@×××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:13:44
Message-Id: 1125554845.5877.0.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel? by Ow Mun Heng
1 On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:23 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
2 > [quote]
3 > Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE)
4 >
5 > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
6 > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
7 > low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
8 > entries in high memory.
9 > [/quote]
10 >
11 > I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me?
12 >
13 > --
14 > Ow Mun Heng
15 > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
16 > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
17 > Neuromancer 23:23:18 up 3:33, 5 users, load average: 0.20, 0.70, 1.11
18 >
19 >
20
21 No
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