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Re: > 2GB of RAM

Subject: Re: > 2GB of RAM
From: Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Date: Sat Jun 17 10:30:46 2000


Matt Spong wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get an Alpha DP264 to recognize 4 GB of RAM, but it currently
> only sees 2GB of that. I'm using kernel 2.2.16. Do I need any additional
> patches to get this working?

At this moment yes. Check
ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/
and search for a fitting 'bigmem' patch. You may need 'mm-fix'
before that as well.

You may be better off with 2.2.17-pre3. In a rush to close security
bugs some "features" were added to 2.2.16. :-)

> Also, I'm getting occasional error messages that look like this:
>
> buffer.c:43 spinlock grabbed in kflushd at fffffc0000354a04(1) 3461 ticks
>
> What does that mean?

See this list archives for the last few days.

  Michal

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