[Stp-devel] Re: BUG: CONFIG_HIGHMEM not set on big machines

[Timothy D. W. <wo...@os...>]

  
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:51, Cliff White wrote:
> Problem: 
> The 4 GB and 8 GB machine in STP do not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
> Thus, STP runs with 1GB memory available on all machines.
> 
> This has been discussed with Ops, once. 
> I am filling this second bug because i do not accept the Ops position.
> I have discussed this with many people in the lab, and all agree.
> It's just wrong.
> 
> The 4 GB and 8 GB machines must be configured to use all the memory.
> This is especially important for 2.5 stablization. 
> 

   I support Cliff's position.  If the kernels break on high memory
then that needs to reported as it happens.  If we are concerned with
data center usage of Linux we must ensure that the ongoing test
environment supports data center configurations in the testing.

Tim

> Please alter the default config for the 4 and 8 CPU machines to set
> high memory on. 
> 
> cliffw
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