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Hi, On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:41:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/12/2013 01:22 PM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote: > > I am using 4.05 because that's what's packaged in the latest Fedora > > release (Fedora 19 in my case). I wonder why they are using such an > > old version. I will take a look at how difficult it would be to build > > the latest version on

...han you >> actually have and see if that changes things. > > That's an interesting idea. I may give that a try. Just to be clear, > are you talking here about the kernel "mem=" boot parameter, as documented > in kernel-parameters.txt? Yes. If the system has about 8192MiB RAM, I'd start by shaving it off in about 16MiB increments or perhaps take a binary search tree pattern approach. > I wonder if that has negative implications for subsequent system performance... Judicious use of that parameter should have minimal impact. You are right to think that it wi...

...have and see if that changes things. >> >> That's an interesting idea. I may give that a try. Just to be clear, >> are you talking here about the kernel "mem=" boot parameter, as documented >> in kernel-parameters.txt? > > Yes. If the system has about 8192MiB RAM, I'd start by shaving it off > in about 16MiB increments or perhaps take a binary search tree pattern > approach. > Actually, start by dropping it down to mem=2G, and move downward from there. >> I wonder if that has negative implications for subsequent system performance....