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SubjectRe: Does linux first allocate under 64MB?

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > If you put more memory in one of those machines, will linux first use the
> > lower 64MB, and then the rest? Is there any way to prioritize
> > memory like
>
> No. Only working solution I've seen (and I've had working on my
> computer) was to use uncachable memory as ramdisk. Maybe there's patch
> (called slowmem) somewhere, or I could generate one.

theres another one, called 'slram' i think, which is a hacked up version
of the RAM-disk driver.

-- mingo


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