No bigmem kernels anymore?

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Jan 7 23:51:16 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:56, Dave Jones wrote:
> > FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too
> > few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
>
> plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.

Does this mean that the -smp kernels have the overhead associated with 
bigmem kernels of the past?  In the past I was told that the induced 
overhead of bigmem support made it not worth it until the 6gig~ memory 
size.  5~ gigs of ram wasn't enough ram to put up w/ the overhead...  
or am I smoking crack?

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