Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:20:46 -0500 (EST) | From | William Stearns <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.29-pre2 still keeps 15M free always. |
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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Benjamin Redelings I wrote:
> 2.3.29-pre2 still keeps 15M free always. This makes it much slower on > my 64Mb machine. > Apparently Ingo's -K4 patch fixed this? But it doesn't look very > stable.
It seems to fix it on my setup. It did introduce problems booting (complete hang after the uncompressing kernel... line) that can temporarily be worked around by specifying mem=XXm on the LILO command line, where XX is the largest multiple of 2 or 4 that fits in your actual memory. You may not see this problem if your memory already is an even multiple of 4M. I've been using 2.3.28+K4 for 2 days without anything more than the usual 2.3.x cosmetics nits. I can deal with those; even this old P100 flies. Cheers, - Bill
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