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Sparsemem or Flatmem

Submitted by Anonymous
on September 27, 2007 - 8:16pm

Is there any benefits of a kernel using sparse memory on a i386

a) single core, single processor, machine
b) multicore, single processor machine
c) multiprocessor machine
?

or should one stick to flat memory in all 3?

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flatmem..

Anonymous (not verified)
on
September 27, 2007 - 11:54pm

I only have FLATMEM as a choice for i386, so the question is kinda pointless.

Sparse memory is only useful

Anonymous (not verified)
on
September 28, 2007 - 3:04am

Sparse memory is only useful on x86 if you want memory hotplug, AFAIK.

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