Big Memory Support

Main Topics Index

Issue #322, Section #8 (3 Sep 2005: New Stable Review Cycle Started For 2.6.12.4)
Issue #296, Section #6 (12 Feb 2005: Some Debate Over OOM Killer Future)
Issue #294, Section #2 (2 Feb 2005: Some Debate On The Development Model)
Issue #293, Section #1 (9 Jan 2005: Forward Porting Some Big-RAM VM Fixes From 2.4 To 2.6)
Issue #287, Section #2 (1 Jan 2005: Out-Of-Memory Killer: Hunting For The Proper Layer)
Issue #284, Section #4 (17 Nov 2004: Linux 2.4.28-rc1; Straggling Patches Considered For Inclusion)
Issue #274, Section #2 (18 Sep 2004: List Of Pending 2.4 Bugs)
Issue #272, Section #3 (5 Sep 2004: Linux 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 Released; Quick Fix For Big Slowdown Followed)
Issue #270, Section #7 (7 Aug 2004: iswraid Updated For 2.4.26)
Issue #265, Section #5 (30 Jun 2004: exec-shield Patch Updated For 2.6.7-rc2-bk2)
Issue #258, Section #3 (18 Apr 2004: Status Of Software Suspend)
Issue #256, Section #9 (2 Apr 2004: Status Of Highmem Support On Non-Highmem Machines Under 2.6)
Issue #255, Section #7 (31 Mar 2004: Linux 2.6.3-mm1 Released)
Issue #254, Section #12 (19 Mar 2004: Linux 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Released)
Issue #253, Section #4 (7 Mar 2004: Software Suspend 2.0 Released)
Issue #253, Section #16 (7 Mar 2004: Linux 2.4.25-rc1 Released)
Issue #251, Section #9 (9 Feb 2004: Software Suspend On PowerPC)
Issue #250, Section #18 (4 Feb 2004: Linux 2.4.25-pre5 Released)
Issue #249, Section #23 (27 Jan 2004: RAM Hotplugging And Allocation)
Issue #247, Section #8 (31 Dec 2003: Linux 2.4.24-pre2 Released)
Issue #247, Section #15 (31 Dec 2003: Support For Hot-Swapping RAM)
Issue #246, Section #10 (26 Dec 2003: Linux 2.6.0 Released)
Issue #245, Section #3 (14 Dec 2003: Status Of Andrea's VM Contributions In 2.4)
Issue #244, Section #4 (8 Dec 2003: Large VM Blocksize Support; Status Of sysenter)
Issue #242, Section #5 (24 Nov 2003: Status Of SCSI Drivers)
Issue #227, Section #4 (11 Aug 2003: Developers Worry About The SCO Lawsuit And Plan For The Worst)
Issue #224, Section #1 (30 Jul 2003: Better Support For Big-RAM Systems)
Issue #224, Section #4 (30 Jul 2003: Expected Changes From 2.4 To 2.6)
Issue #224, Section #5 (30 Jul 2003: Merging Software Suspend Patches; Aborting A Suspend-In-Progress)
Issue #222, Section #12 (10 Jul 2003: Benchmarks Comparing ext2 And ext3)
Issue #216, Section #3 (20 May 2003: 'Must-Fix' Bug List For 2.6 (Or 3.0))
Issue #212, Section #5 (6 Apr 2003: Initial Port Of Software Suspend (SWSUSP) From 2.4 To 2.5)
Issue #201, Section #13 (17 Jan 2003: Virtual Memory Subsystem Documentation)
Issue #195, Section #19 (9 Dec 2002: Maximum Physical RAM)
Issue #195, Section #21 (9 Dec 2002: kexec-tools 1.8 Released)
Issue #194, Section #18 (2 Dec 2002: Reverse-Mapping Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #192, Section #15 (18 Nov 2002: Kernel 2.5.46-mm2 Released)
Issue #185, Section #18 (22 Sep 2002: Multiple kswapd Processes On A Single Machine)
Issue #185, Section #33 (22 Sep 2002: Linux 2.5.36 Released; XFS Merged)
Issue #184, Section #13 (15 Sep 2002: Linux 2.4.20-pre5-ac4 Released)
Issue #182, Section #26 (1 Sep 2002: Various Consolidated Patches)
Issue #181, Section #32 (25 Aug 2002: VM Regress 0.6 Is Available)
Issue #177, Section #3 (28 Jul 2002: New VM Subsystem Lieutenant)
Issue #175, Section #11 (14 Jul 2002: New rmap Patch For The VM Subsystem)
Issue #167, Section #2 (19 May 2002: More Than 3G RAM Per Process)
Issue #162, Section #2 (14 Apr 2002: Kernel Licensing Discussion)
Issue #162, Section #11 (14 Apr 2002: Status Of Highmem Patch In 2.4)
Issue #155, Section #8 (25 Feb 2002: BitKeeper Wrangling)
Issue #153, Section #2 (11 Feb 2002: Latest O(1) Scheduler Patch For 2.5)
Issue #153, Section #3 (11 Feb 2002: VM Update And Benchmarks)
Issue #149, Section #10 (7 Jan 2002: Comparing 2.4 With 2.2)
Issue #148, Section #3 (31 Dec 2001: 2.5 API Change Summaries)
Issue #144, Section #4 (3 Dec 2001: Marcelo Takes Over 2.4)
Issue #141, Section #8 (12 Nov 2001: Faster File Creation And Deletion For ext2)
Issue #139, Section #2 (29 Oct 2001: New Preemptible Kernel Patch)
Issue #135, Section #3 (1 Oct 2001: Ruminations On 2.5)
Issue #131, Section #7 (3 Sep 2001: 2.4.9 And A Vacation)
Issue #131, Section #12 (3 Sep 2001: 2.4.10-pre1 Is Available)
Issue #126, Section #6 (16 Jul 2001: Per-Process Memory Limits)
Issue #122, Section #6 (18 Jun 2001: Bigmem Limitations)
Issue #121, Section #9 (11 Jun 2001: Virtual Memory Subsystem In 2.4)
Issue #118, Section #8 (14 May 2001: KDB Wishlist)
Issue #116, Section #2 (30 Apr 2001: Enabling 64-Bit DMAs)
Issue #114, Section #10 (16 Apr 2001: Major System Slowdown Reproducible Under 2.4.3)
Issue #110, Section #1 (9 Mar 2001: Minix Problem In 2.4.2; Some Discussion Of Development Pseudo-Policies)
Issue #109, Section #10 (2 Mar 2001: 2.4 VM Improvement Over 2.2; Status Of VM)
Issue #103, Section #2 (19 Jan 2001: Maximum CPUs And RAM Under 2.4 Kernels)
Issue #97, Section #7 (11 Dec 2000: Success Report For Big Memory Machines)
Issue #92, Section #1 (6 Nov 2000: Large Memory Support For Intel Systems)
Issue #89, Section #4 (16 Oct 2000: Pressure On The New VM)
Issue #88, Section #5 (9 Oct 2000: SparcLinux On Sun E10000)
Issue #88, Section #6 (9 Oct 2000: Linux On AlphaServer GS320)
Issue #86, Section #3 (25 Sep 2000: Patches For Big RAM, Better VM, Raw IO, SMP Performance, Large Files, And Other Stuff)
Issue #83, Section #8 (5 Sep 2000: Linus On Flags In Functions To Enable Hardware Features)
Issue #77, Section #1 (24 Jul 2000: New Plans For the Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #72, Section #3 (19 Jun 2000: 32-bit Devices On Alpha)
Issue #68, Section #5 (22 May 2000: Virtual Memory Problems Persist In Development Series)
Issue #56, Section #3 (28 Feb 2000: To Do For 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #53, Section #7 (7 Feb 2000: Big Hardware)
Issue #45, Section #6 (6 Dec 1999: zoned 2.3.28-J5 Announced)
Issue #41, Section #4 (1 Nov 1999: Bigmem Patches Advancing)
Issue #35, Section #2 (20 Sep 1999: bigmem Patch Conflicts With rawio Patch)
Issue #33, Section #5 (7 Sep 1999: Ramdisks Blocksize And 2.3.x Problems)
Issue #32, Section #12 (27 Aug 1999: Using 4 Gigs Of Ram On 32-Bit Systems)
Issue #19, Section #4 (20 May 1999: Increasing Maximum Physical Memory On x86 Machines)
Issue #16, Section #4 (29 Apr 1999: Swap Files Vs. Swap Partitions)
Issue #10, Section #10 (18 Mar 1999: Big Memory Machines)
Issue #9, Section #7 (11 Mar 1999: Buffer Overflow Attacks; Big Memory Machines)
Issue #4, Section #6 (4 Feb 1999: Big Memory Machines)
Issue #3, Section #9 (28 Jan 1999: Big Memory Machines)

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