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In light of the recent discussions about config_tiny, etc, I decided to install 2.4.19 on my old 8MB 486, to see whether it performed any better than my previous attempts with 2.2.* and 2.4.* The strange thing is, the memory init line at bootup (eg Memory: 255296k/261996k available (1584k kernel code, 5972k reserved, 1353k data , 108k init, 0k highmem)) says that only about 5 or 6MB are availabel, with a whopping 2.x MB reserved. I have done a web search, and the only answer I have come up with is that the top 384kb of the 1MB lower portion of RAM should be here, but what else could be eating up all my RAM? There is nothgin suspicious in the BIOS - all BIOS and video caching is turned off. The machine only (natually) has ISA slots in it, most are empty. What else could possibly be wrong? Is there something I can hack in the kernel to get it to use that, or can anyone give me pointers as to what else I can change? I would really love to regain that 2MB - its a pain when the shell gets swapped out after doing an `ls` :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Computer screens simply ooze buckets of yang. To balance this, place some women around the corners of the room. -- Kaz Cooke, Dumb Feng Shui - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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