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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Daniel Harvey <daniel@amristar.com.au>
Cc: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:19:19 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010714021919.A5058@weta.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAOEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAOEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:57:17PM +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote:

     BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)

0 -> 638K

     BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

638K -> 640K

        presumably you loose 2k at the top because the bios is doing
        something with it

     BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

936K -> 1024K / 1M

        more reserved stuff

     BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fbf0000 (usable)

1M -> ~ 251M (256M less 4160K)

     BIOS-e820: 000000000fbf0000 - 000000000fbffc00 (ACPI data)
     BIOS-e820: 000000000fbffc00 - 000000000fc00000 (ACPI NVS)

ACPI stuff

     BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

4G - 128M -> 4G


I'm not sure where above the video memory resides, probably in the
last usable section looking at the size of it, but I don't see why it
should be marked as usable then.  Also, if it was being misreported, I
would expect running X and such like to clobber kernel buffers
eventually and cause all sorts of nasties (like disk corruption).

Was does lspci -v report for the video (VGA Adapters) address? You
might also be able to find this from the XF86 startup session.

Also, can you try adding a line like:

        mempages >>= 1;

to the start of fs/dcache.c:dcache_init(...) after the variable
delcaration obviously and see if that helps at all?





  --cw

       reply	other threads:[~2001-07-13 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAOEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
2001-07-13 14:19 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-07-12  6:01 Daniel Harvey
     [not found] <20010712154739.A2877@weta.f00f.org>
2001-07-12  4:43 ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-12  4:48   ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-11 17:14     ` Chris Bacott
2001-07-12  5:59       ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-12  4:52     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-12 21:56     ` J . A . Magallon

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