From: "Daniel Harvey" <daniel@amristar.com.au>
To: "Daniel Harvey" <daniel@amristar.com.au>,
"Chris Wedgwood" <cw@f00f.org>,
<hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:48:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGACEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAKEAFCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
Got an idea - the video card in the Compaq uses a piece of shared memory
(between 2-8M).
Would Linux be able to detect that?
Daniel.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Harvey [mailto:daniel@amristar.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 12:43 PM
> To: Chris Wedgwood; Mark Hahn [hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca];
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
>
>
> At last getting something different!
>
> linux 2.4.5 with:
>
> no options - slow
> mem=64M - fast
> mem=128M - fast
> mem=200M - fast
> mem=224M - fast
> mem=240M - fast
> mem=248M - fast
> mem=249M - fast/medium, fast 'make dep' but slow boot/reboot
> mem=250M - slow
> mem=252M - slow
> mem=256M - hangs on boot, last line="Freeing unused kernel
> memory: 196k freed"
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@f00f.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 11:48 AM
> > To: Daniel Harvey
> > Subject: Re: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:48:31AM +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote:
> >
> > That's the weird thing - 2.4.5 is just as slow! Even though,
> > as you say, it
> > has the patch etc incorporated ...
> >
> > boot 2.4.5 with the command line optino "mem=64M" and see how slow it is
> >
> >
> >
> > --cw
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-12 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010712154739.A2877@weta.f00f.org>
2001-07-12 4:43 ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-12 4:48 ` Daniel Harvey [this message]
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
2001-07-12 6:01 Daniel Harvey
[not found] <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAOEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
2001-07-13 14:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
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