On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:59 am, flacycads wrote:
> 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
I really like this, thank you. I am going to put those other memsticks in
this afternoon. since i also have win 2k on the box, will I need to make any
changes to it?
As far as MDK goes, when useing either a multi CPU board or more than 1 gig
mem, there are different kernel versions (smp, and enterprise.) but linux
really uses smp and more mem much better than WIn2k.
thanks,
see I learnt something again today... life is good.
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> 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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