Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:45:40 +0000
andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:27 +0000
> > andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>> Although the man page will identify as a bug that the info in
> >>>> dmidecode can be completely wrong (!), this does show that I have
> >>>> 1024MB of RAM - i.e. 1GB. So, somewhere betwixt BIOS and fired up
> >>>> Etch I have lost recognition for 250MB-odd of memory.
> >>>>
> >
> >
> >> Thanks for your thoughts. On a note that might be related, I have
> >> just watched an *.avi video from the hard-drive using Totem and was
> >> drawing 100% CPU, with 42% of memory in cache. Perhaps this is
> >> normal ?
> >>
> >> My only strange experiences with Etch thus far are:
> >> * not having the full 1 GB stick recognised,
> >> * the heavy use of CPU,
> >> * the overflow into swap, and
> >> * the occasional hard freeze when burning DVDs after converting
> >> them from non-DVD formats
> >>
> >>
> >> Perhaps these issues are related? Could I have a bad stick of RAM?
> >> Is it software? Will the Knoppix and memtest86 CDs you mention
> >> help sort out which is which?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your thoughts.
> >>
> >> A
> >>
> >
> > You still didn't answer any questions about the video card. Maybe
> > you have an on-board chipset with shared mem?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrei
> >
> Sorry Andrei, that e-mail must have slipped past my radar. The
> graphics card is 128MB ATI Radeon X200 Express Graphics built-in. I
> think that it is a 32-bit and that memory is prefetchable
> [size=256MB]. If this means that it shares memory from the RAM chip,
> then yes, this would account for the missing RAM.
>
> A
AFAIK prefetchable means something else, but if the chip is built-in it
might use shared memory. Just look through the bios settings, the
amount of shared memory is usually configurable.
Regards,
Andrei
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