 | | | 3ware and hugemem | 3ware and hugemem 2006-08-04 - By Jeffrey Siegal
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Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 08:57 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>>> I have a database server I need to boost the memory in (it currently has
>>> 3GB installed) and I was going to take it to 8GB until I remembered that
>>> RH pulled support of the 3ware drivers out of the hugemem kernel (it is
>>> still available in the unsupported hugemen kernel).
>> Hi,
>>
>> you don't really need the hugemem kernel for 8gb; the normal smp kernel
>> will support 8gb just fine...
>
> Ah. I had forgotten that the limit for the base smp kernels had been
> raised from 4GB at some point. My bad. Thanks for the reminder.
I remember reading somewhere that the regular kernel is preferred for up
to about 12GB. Its a performance issue so it probably depends on
workload and such.
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