Re: Memory Gobbler
First, 430HX does cache more than 64MB RAM subject to your motherboard
have an
extra Tag RAM. It is the Tag RAM problem, not the chipset problem.
Only 430VX and 430TX not cache more than 64MB RAM.
Second, it is the BIOS limitation that make Linux not find more than
64MB RAM,
though there is a person written a patch against kernel 2.0.30 to
aggressively
detect the memory on the motherboard.
> Hum,
> I would be surprised if linux had such limitations.
> I've read that Intel's 430HX (the chip for Pentium motherboards) can't cache
> memory above 64M (in april's c't ).
> But linux would still see the memory. It would only be slow.
>
> I think it's normal that the OS uses all the memory after a few hours.
> As long as there is free memory, it'll cache all disks accesses. An with
> an http server...
> We have a server here with 64M, and it uses a lot of cache :
>
> hermes, a P 100 under linux :
> bash> free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63460 62680 780 15672 27964 9796
> -/+ buffers: 24920 38540
> Swap: 20124 56 20068
>
> Now, and never understood the ouputs of free, so I can be completely wrong.
>
> Note that I only have 16M on a 486, so I don't know much about these
> problems... I find it interesting, that's all.
>
> BTW, why all this memory ? Is it always for network services, or could it
> be useful for desktop computers too ?
>
> Alexandre
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