Differece between printf and printk 4956

On Thursday 06 October 2005 16:47, Jean-David Beyer stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

No, to the kernel, but in a paged mode, as the kernel cannot directly address all of the 64 GB, and so it needs to remap physical addresses when it wants to access something from beyond the 4 GB that it can address using 32-bits.

Yes, you can get such a split. However, I typically use...

make xconfig

... and haven't come across the option yet, not even in the 2.6.13 that I've recently configured. Maybe the option is available in themenuconfigor plainconfigmethods of configuring the kernel.

I noticed you saying you have a dual Xeon system with HyperThreading, but you are running a 2.4 kernel. I would advise you to switch to a 2.6 kernel since the 2.4 does not favor load balancing across the physical CPU's versus load balancing across the hyperthreaded siblings.

My system is also a dual Xeon with HyperThreading and 4 GB of RAM. According to Intel, the motherboard supports up to 8 GB but there are only four memory slots and they claim that they haven't tested 2 GB memory modules adequately enough yet to support their usage on this motherboard (SE7500CW).

Either way, those things are expensive. It's ECC registered DDR SDRAM, and I know what I paid per 1 GB module... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered Gnu-Linux user #223157)