Re: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Beta 2 Public Availability

[Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:42:01AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > for those who wonder... in beta 1, the 4G/4G feature was enabled by
> > default in all kernels so no extra kernel was needed at all.
> > However this feature causes RHEL to run slower inside vmware (an
> > artifact of the virtualisation technique used), as reported on this list
> > only a few days ago.
> 
> BTW, is the 4GB/4GB patch merged in Fedora kernels, too? 

yes and enabled by default in all i686 kernels.
 
> Is there any definitive way to find out which split (4/4, 3/1, 2/2, 3.5/0.5)
> is effective in the running kernel? I couldn't find it in /proc...

you can look at /proc/self/maps and see whatthe highest address in use is
 
> Was 3/1 the default for RHEL3?

yes.