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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:24:06 +1100
From: "Rob Mueller" <robm@...tmail.fm>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: "Bron Gondwana" <brong@...tmail.fm>,
"Christian Kujau" <lists@...dbynature.de>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"riel" <riel@...hat.com>, "Anton Altaparmakov" <aia21@....ac.uk>
Subject: Re: mmap dirty limits on 32 bit kernels (Was: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)
> That's my personal opinion, and I realize that some of the commercial
> vendors may care about their insane customers' satisfaction, but I'm
> simply not interested in insane users. If they have that much RAM (and
> bought it a few years ago when a 64-bit CPU wasn't an option), they can't
> be poor.
>From our perspective, the main issue is that some of these machines we spent
quite a bit of money on the big RAM (for it's day) + lots of 15k RPM SCSI
drives + multi-year support contracts. They're highly IO bound, and barely
use 10-20% of their old 2.4Ghz Prestonia Xeon CPUs. It's hard to justify
junking those machines < 5 years.
We have a couple of 6G machines and some 8G machines using PAE. On the
whole, they actually have been working really well (hmmm, apart from the
recent dirty pages issue + reiserfs data=journal leaks + inodes in lowmem
limits)
Rob
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