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.

memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
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. I've tested

memory management weirdness

2005-02-21 Thread Martin MOKREJ
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. 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-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