Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Problems with too much memory (?) | Date | 26 Apr 1997 18:37:02 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970426142745.10545D-100000@xgw15.pal.xgw.fi> By author: Tuomas Heino <tbittih@xgw.fi> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > MB is propably the cause... but anyway why doesn't Linux support > non-cached ram... too complex and/or not worth it? ('swapping' to > non-cached ram should still be quite a bit faster than swapping to harddisk) >
Some people have been known to hack the RAMdisk driver to get a RAM disk in non-cached memory; then swap to the RAMdisk. This seems to work, but I've never seen it supported in the official RAMdisk driver.
-hpa
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