Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 1996 21:35:31 +0100 (BST) | From | Robert de Bath <> | Subject | Old style ramdisk |
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Dear *, I _like_ the new style ramdisk driver, for normal machines it's much better than the old one.
But, (There's always one!) I've also got this nice old 386, it's got a little bit of 32bit ram and a lot more ram in ISA cards. With 1.2.13 I can put the ISA card ram in as a ramdisk (with a tiny patch) and put a swap file on there. Unfortunatly with 2.0.0 I can't do this 'cause the ramdisk would be scattered through memory this means that the CPU is now running programs from the slooow RAM, 2.0.0 ends up about 1/4 the speed of 1.2.13 on an already very slow machine.
So, what I'm after is some way to tell Linux that it's a _really_ bad idea to run code from that area; an old style ramdisk in a module would do the trick but I can't find one anywhere, does anyone know of one, so I can upgrade that machine to two too please ? :-)
-- Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert@mayday.compulink.co.uk>)
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