Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-23 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:57 am, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > The 3GB labeled file corresponds to fast case, 4GB is ugly slow. > What can you gather from those files? I did take a look and didn't analyze it further since Andi Mentioned it is a known BIOS bug. Sorry about the trouble - didn't

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-23 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:57 am, Martin MOKREJ wrote: The 3GB labeled file corresponds to fast case, 4GB is ugly slow. What can you gather from those files? I did take a look and didn't analyze it further since Andi Mentioned it is a known BIOS bug. Sorry about the trouble - didn't imagine

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although I've not re-tested this today again, it used to help a bit to specify mem=3548M to decrease memory used by linux (tested with AGP card plugged in, when bios reported 3556MB RAM only). I found that removing the AGP based videoc

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Parag Warudkar wrote: Hi, I have received no answer to my former question (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110827143716215=2). I've spent some more time on that problem and have more or less confirmed it's because of buggy bios. However, the linux kernel doesn't handle properly

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although I've not re-tested this today again, it used to help a bit to > > specify > > mem=3548M to decrease memory used by linux (tested with AGP card plugged > > in, when > > bios reported 3556MB RAM only). > > > > I found that removing the AGP

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I've not re-tested this today again, it used to help a bit to specify mem=3548M to decrease memory used by linux (tested with AGP card plugged in, when bios reported 3556MB RAM only). I found that removing the AGP based videoc

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Martin MOKREJ
Parag Warudkar wrote: Hi, I have received no answer to my former question (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110827143716215w=2). I've spent some more time on that problem and have more or less confirmed it's because of buggy bios. However, the linux kernel doesn't handle properly

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-22 Thread Martin MOKREJ
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I've not re-tested this today again, it used to help a bit to specify mem=3548M to decrease memory used by linux (tested with AGP card plugged in, when bios reported 3556MB RAM only). I found that removing the AGP based videoc

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Martin MOKREJ© <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I have received no answer to my former question > (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110827143716215=2). That's because it's a BIOS problem. There are limits on how much Linux can work around BIOS breakage. > Although I've

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Parag Warudkar
> Hi, > I have received no answer to my former question > (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110827143716215=2). > I've spent some more time on that problem and have more or less confirmed > it's because of buggy bios. However, the linux kernel doesn't handle properly > such case.

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Parag Warudkar
Hi, I have received no answer to my former question (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110827143716215w=2). I've spent some more time on that problem and have more or less confirmed it's because of buggy bios. However, the linux kernel doesn't handle properly such case.

Re: memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Martin MOKREJ© [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have received no answer to my former question (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110827143716215w=2). That's because it's a BIOS problem. There are limits on how much Linux can work around BIOS breakage. Although I've not