On Friday 04 July 2008 14:45:42 Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > currently on kernel-desktop586 HIGHMEM is disabled, mainly because there
> > is some slightly overhead with it enabled and this kernel was meant for
> > old machines with low memory. But the desktop586 is used on Mandriva One
> > (to work on most hardware as possible, even the older ones and not 686
> > compatible arch cpus), and we get many reports of it not detecting all
> > memory available, because systems with more than 896MB are very common
> > today.
> >
> > I measured recently the boot time of a geode with 512MB with highmem4g
> > enabled/nohighmem and didn't notice a significant difference at least on
> > boot time (the difference was around 1s or less, still in some error
> > margin). So what about we rediscuss this again and now enable
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G also on desktop586 kernel? I think that there are more
> > benefits in enabling it.
>
> As I brought this up in IRC, obviously +1 from here.
I can't count how many users i send from IRC to the wiki errata page to learn
how to change for a kernel with high mem. support.
+1
Sergio Rafael Lemke
Mandriva QA
