Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:43:42AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > Uff. Now full memtest takes less than 2 hours. Being able to cache memory helps a lot. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > a)With mem=8GB parameter I had: > > #free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 6473 474 5999 0 29 278 > > > b) Without mem=8GM system slows down while booting and sometimes restart... > > > So the story

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: a)With mem=8GB parameter I had: #free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 6473 474 5999 0 29 278 b) Without mem=8GM system slows down while booting and sometimes restart... So the story begins

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:43:42AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: Uff. Now full memtest takes less than 2 hours. Being able to cache memory helps a lot. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7988 1120 6868 0 88 612 Now i need to rerun memory tests. Thank you for helping me with this stuff. Uff. Now full memtest takes less than 2 hours. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7988 1120 6868 0 88 612 Now i need to rerun memory tests. Thank you for helping me with this stuff. Uff. Now full memtest takes less than 2 hours. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-19 Thread Wojciech Kromer
It's Intel-quad, so there are 4 CPUs. Weird. The message about the MTRR on all the CPUs not maching sound like a strange bios bug. Are you running the latest bios version? See the story below. Looks to match the MTRR setup at least. So how much ram does the kernel actually

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-19 Thread Wojciech Kromer
It's Intel-quad, so there are 4 CPUs. Weird. The message about the MTRR on all the CPUs not maching sound like a strange bios bug. Are you running the latest bios version? See the story below. Looks to match the MTRR setup at least. So how much ram does the kernel actually

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:35:43PM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > Yes, it's a bit strange, but there should be a way to configure it in linux. > I found only memmap option which does selection of regions, but not > remapping. No it is entirely the BIOS's job to do that. It would be very hard

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x1 (4096MB), size=8192MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x28000 (10240MB), size=2048MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x26000 (9728MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg03: base=0x ( 0MB), size=4096MB:

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:01:44AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > I have 2.6.22.6 kernel > > First MTRR looks good for me. > Why it was rejected? > And how to force using it? > > here are more details > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mtrr > reg00: base=0x1 (4096MB), size=8192MB:

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
What does your mtrr look like? How about dmesg? Might be the stupid mtrr setup some bioses have been doing on intel chips where it would do: 4GB range at 4GB 1GB range at 8GB 512MB range at 9GB 256MB range at 9.5GB etc. And then it runs out of entries (which pisses of X). The simple

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
What does your mtrr look like? How about dmesg? Might be the stupid mtrr setup some bioses have been doing on intel chips where it would do: 4GB range at 4GB 1GB range at 8GB 512MB range at 9GB 256MB range at 9.5GB etc. And then it runs out of entries (which pisses of X). The simple

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:01:44AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: I have 2.6.22.6 kernel First MTRR looks good for me. Why it was rejected? And how to force using it? here are more details [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x1 (4096MB), size=8192MB: write-back,

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x1 (4096MB), size=8192MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x28000 (10240MB), size=2048MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x26000 (9728MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg03: base=0x ( 0MB), size=4096MB:

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:35:43PM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: Yes, it's a bit strange, but there should be a way to configure it in linux. I found only memmap option which does selection of regions, but not remapping. No it is entirely the BIOS's job to do that. It would be very hard for

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > I can't see whole 8GB of ram. > > With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G. > After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this: > > # free -m > total used free

Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-14 Thread Wojciech Kromer
I can't see whole 8GB of ram. With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G. After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this: # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 6473474 5999

Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-14 Thread Wojciech Kromer
I can't see whole 8GB of ram. With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G. After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this: # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 6473474 5999

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Wojciech Kromer wrote: I can't see whole 8GB of ram. With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G. After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this: # free -m total used free