Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:31:18 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM |
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Per Andreas Buer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:22, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > > It could potentially slow it down a lot more than a few percent. > > > > The main effect you would see is heavy low memory consumption (LowFree: > > going down to almost nothing) and very heavy cpu consumption. > > Right on. LowFree drops and when it reaches almost nothing the system > more or less goes freezes. > > The DAC960 driver is not a SCSI driver so this means that there is > something wrong with the PCI-DMA transfers, right? > > Replacing the DAC960 with another RAID-kontroller will not help because > it will use the same PCI-DMA transfers, right? Any hints on how I can > mend this?
Per,
You may want to give 2.4.23 a try.
The VM has been changed to balance the memory in a "saner" way wrt highmem.
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