Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Memory upgrade causes slowdown; why? | Date | 26 Oct 1996 02:43:49 GMT |
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Followup to: <slrn56rmi0.rh4.mike@toaster.roan.co.uk> By author: Mike Jagdis <mike@toaster.roan.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Check your motherboard manual. It sounds like it is only caching the > lower 16MB, either because of a setup option or because of a lack > of cache memory. > > Incidentally when I get my new page allocation finished it will, as > a side effect, help such systems since it tends to focus usage on the > DMA-able memory which, on an ISA class machine, is the lower 16MB. >
The way to use such a system is probably to assign the high RAM to a RAMdisk and use it as a swap device...
-hpa -- Not speaking for Transmeta in any shape, way, or form.
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