[ES40-developers] Patch: Big Systems...

[Brian W. <bdw...@in...>]

Because it seemed like a funny thing to do (and I'm easily amused), I
fixed the system memory allocator so memory bits greater than 30 can be
used.


Memory Testing and Configuration Status
  Array       Size       Base Address    Intlv Mode
---------  ----------  ----------------  ----------
    0       8192Mb     0000000000000000    4-Way

     8192 MB of System Memory
AlphaServer ES40 Console V7.2-1, built on Jun  9 2006 at 15:36:48
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The linux box running it (an 8-cpu Opteron w/36G RAM):

top - 14:51:50 up 134 days,  6:56,  7 users,  load average: 1.36, 0.90, 0.60
Tasks: 213 total,   3 running, 210 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.9%us,  1.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.7%id,  1.2%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  37120580k total, 34210544k used,  2910036k free,    76832k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,      156k used,  2031452k free, 28809312k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
28570 bdwheele  25   0 8238m 139m 1840 R  100  0.4   2:55.65 es40               
28787 bdwheele  15   0 12716 1144  800 R    2  0.0   0:00.06 top                
 1675 root      15   0     0    0    0 R    0  0.0   0:52.37 pdflush