No bigmem kernels anymore?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 23:51, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:56, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too
> > > few users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
> >
> > plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.
> 
> Does this mean that the -smp kernels have the overhead associated with 
> bigmem kernels of the past?  In the past I was told that the induced 
> overhead of bigmem support made it not worth it until the 6gig~ memory 
> size.  5~ gigs of ram wasn't enough ram to put up w/ the overhead...  
> or am I smoking crack?

It's marginal. There's far bigger measurable overhead with features like
selinux than PAE.

	Dave