Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is no problem with higher versions of windows.
The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in System.ini to 512MB or slightly less, and the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1. That way, windows will use up to 512MB before using the swap file, you will eliminate windows booting problems, and you can still use all the ram you have over 512MB when you boot Linux. Also helps to increase the spare stack pages from the windows default of 2 by adding the line MinSPs=8 (or 12) to the 386Enh section in System.ini. There's more of these modifications, and they definitely improve windows somewhat, at least to the extent it can be. I'm new to linux, so I'm wondering if there aren't similar modifications, and where they can be applied- I assume probably somewhere in /etc files, but I'm really a novice. Or is it generally that Linux is already configured correctly in the first place, and none of these type tweaks are really needed? Robert Crawford On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:55 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > ehhh, no mater what, or so I have heard, win 9x to win me will NOT boot > > with more than 512 megs ram. I can say that for sure with winME. > > it is really the way the ram is used, as far as I know, that makes the > > differences, that and the way it is tested by the kernal developers to > > decide what really is the best optimization for the ram use. > > AFAIK, this is not entirely correct. I've known people running about 768 > (or something like that).. oh, no, wait. It was 1G of RAM. The problem > with it is that Win9X cannot use all of it. And also, any more than 512MB > will only make the machine slower, as Win9x kernels have a memory > managment so crippled that it can choke by maintaining "too many" process > tables and memory pages. And no matter how many programs this guy loaded, > memory usage was never above ~400 MB, and it would even freeze due to "lack > of resources" without going any further. > > Damian
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