[7.300+] handling PAE kernels for more memory ! [URGENT FEATURE REQUEST]

Hi

this is now urgent for us that you enable a PAE kernel ! we have 2 ASG cluster with 4G each (for timebeing as master/backup) and we plan to buy the active/active cluster soon... but for timebeing memory used on the firewall is about 3G almost all the time !!! [:(] and we have not yet activated email filtering ! only IPS, IPSec and SSL VPN (+regular packet filter) are activated... but we will have soon more big customers... so this is really important that astaro can handle more than 3.2G !!!!
so can you make PAE support high priority for next (major?) release ?

thx

0 BarryG over 15 years ago

How much of the 3G used is Cache?

Linux will always use ALL available memory for filecaching.

Barry
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0 BuBU over 15 years ago in reply to BarryG

How much of the 3G used is Cache?

Linux will always use ALL available memory for filecaching.

Barry

I know about that...
but most of the time cached is arround 512M [:(]
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0 BarryG over 15 years ago in reply to BuBU

How many users or connections are going through the firewall?

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0 sunland_01 over 15 years ago in reply to BarryG

PAE is actived by the big-smp kernel. you must manual install the big snmp kernel.
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0 BuBU over 15 years ago in reply to sunland_01

PAE is actived by the big-smp kernel. you must manual install the big snmp kernel.

ok but does this avoid support as this is manual install to do on the asg ?
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0 BuBU over 15 years ago in reply to BarryG

How many users or connections are going through the firewall?

Barry

we are using Astaro as ISP, and we are hosting big customers for ressorts solutions (online reservations, checkins, ... for hotels, camping, mobilehome, ..) and we have a 99% availabilty system (everything is redondant), so we have bunch of connexion all day long, so the IPS should be really used eavily..
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0 KSeemann over 15 years ago in reply to sunland_01

PAE is actived by the big-smp kernel. you must manual install the big snmp kernel.

is that an install Option (like noacpi) when you boot the Install-CD? And more important... is it an "official" Option [;)]. Does someone know someone who uses that "big-snmp" Kernel?
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0 BrucekConvergent over 15 years ago in reply to KSeemann

I don't believe there is an option for installing the "big-smp" kernel. I don't believe Astaro supports this configuration. If you are a commercial customer, I suggest opening a case with Astaro, or contacting your reseller to explore your options.

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