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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Xen 3.2.1 / 32-bit PAE Kernel / 64-bit Hypervisor
Date: Tue,  9 Feb 2010 10:01:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f67cc20fc6197dd1779ef22560c58b06@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3a474b6ce2cd7a5411275407c443999@hamnavoe.com>

> I've updated /n/sources/xen/xen3 source and sample kernels with a small
> mmu correction which was needed for Xen 3.4 (thanks to Peter Bosch for
> tracking down the bug).  Maybe this will help for your configuration too.
>
> How much physical RAM do you have?  I'm not aware of the PAE code having
> been tested with more than 4GB.  If your machine is bigger, you could
> try booting Xen with RAM restricted to, say, 2GB (should be a linux boot
> parameter for this) and see if it makes a difference.

could you explain this a little further.  pae would normally
not be useful with 2gb of ram and is often of dubious utility
on a 4gb machine.  what's different about xen?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09  1:12 Kenneth L Van Alstyne
2010-02-09 10:36 ` Richard Miller
2010-02-09 15:01   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-02-09 15:23     ` [9fans] Plan 9 on Xen 3.2.1 / 32-bit PAE Kernel / 64-bit Richard Miller
2010-02-09  8:10 [9fans] Plan 9 on Xen 3.2.1 / 32-bit PAE Kernel / 64-bit Hypervisor Wolfgang Kunz
2010-02-09 20:04 Kenneth L Van Alstyne
2010-02-10 15:43 ` Richard Miller
2010-02-11  9:41 ` Jano

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