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> One other possibility is to drop high memory, but allow the extra physical memory to be used as a zram swap device. That would not be as efficient as accessi
by wibbily 1y ago
> One other possibility is to drop high memory, but allow the extra physical memory to be used as a zram swap device. That would not be as efficient as accessing the memory directly, but it is relatively simple and would make it possible to drop the complexity of high memory.
Wild, like some kind of virtual cache. Reminds me a bit of the old Macintosh 68k accelerators; sometimes they included their own (faster) memory and you could use the existing sticks as a RAM disk.
- chasil 1y agoUnfortunately, I am still using a 32-bit kernel using high memory. It was caled "PAE" - physical address extensions. $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.2.el5PAE ... (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 28 20:25:21 PDT 2017
- doublepg23 1y agoWhy? Industrial controller?