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There are several classic problems related to memory on Linux
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systems.
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- 1) There are some buggy motherboards which cannot properly
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- deal with the memory above 16MB. Consider exchanging
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- your motherboard.
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-
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- 2) You cannot do DMA on the ISA bus to addresses above
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- 16M. Most device drivers under Linux allow the use
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- of bounce buffers which work around this problem. Drivers
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- that don't use bounce buffers will be unstable with
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- more than 16M installed. Drivers that use bounce buffers
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- will be OK, but may have slightly higher overhead.
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- 3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
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+ 1) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
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a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these
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motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster
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as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
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@@ -24,7 +13,7 @@ It can also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed.
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If you use "mem=" on a machine with PCI, consider using "memmap=" to avoid
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physical address space collisions.
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-See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, loadlin, etc.) about
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+See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, grub, loadlin, etc.) about
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how to pass options to the kernel.
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There are other memory problems which Linux cannot deal with. Random
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@@ -42,19 +31,3 @@ Try:
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with the vendor. Consider testing it with memtest86 yourself.
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* Exchanging your CPU, cache, or motherboard for one that works.
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- * Disabling the cache from the BIOS.
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- * Try passing the "mem=4M" option to the kernel to limit
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- Linux to using a very small amount of memory. Use "memmap="-option
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- together with "mem=" on systems with PCI to avoid physical address
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- space collisions.
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-Other tricks:
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- * Try passing the "no-387" option to the kernel to ignore
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- a buggy FPU.
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- * Try passing the "no-hlt" option to disable the potentially
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- buggy HLT instruction in your CPU.
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