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:[email protected]]
> 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
>
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:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 12:43 PM
> To: Chris Wedgwood; Mark Hahn [[email protected]];
> [email protected]
> 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:[email protected]]
> > 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
> >
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:48:57PM +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote:
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?
the bios returns a memory value to accommodate this
--cw
What is the card? Are they still using the SiS 530? I have a Presario, with
192 meg RAM, and a SiS 530 onboard, using 8 meg shared mem. I have no
problems concerning that, Linux se---hmm, never noticed before. Total mem
(-swap): 183.2 meg. Doesn't say anything about the shared mem. I thought
Linux totalled up all RAM, even that in the vid card, to be used as RAM?
Someone told me that.....can't remember who. Never noticed that. Anyway, I'm
not having any other problems, other than now I have to make sure the missing
8 meg, err, 9meg, is being used. Dammit, something _else_ to investigate.
> 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.
>
> >
> > 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"
> >
--
Chris Bacott
Its a Trident Cyberblade; here is what X reports:
...
(II) TRIDENT: driver for Trident chipsets: tvga8900d, cyber9320, cyber9388,
cyber9397, cyber9397dvd, cyber9520, cyber9525dvd, cyberblade/e4,
tgui9420dgi, tgui9440agi, tgui9660, tgui9680, providia9682,
providia9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, blade3d,
cyberbladei7, cyberbladei7d, cyberbladei1, cyberbladei1d,
cyberbladeAi1, cyberbladeAi1d, cyberbladeXP, cyberbladeXPm
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset cyberbladei1d found
...
(--) TRIDENT(0): Found CyberBlade/DSTN/i1 chip
(--) TRIDENT(0): RAM type is SDRAM
(**) TRIDENT(0): VideoRAM: 4096 kByte
Daniel.
> What is the card? Are they still using the SiS 530? I have a
> Presario, with
On 20010712 Daniel Harvey wrote:
>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?
>
The bios just tells linux it has less ram. I have a laptop with all SiS chips,
vga is a SiS630, and uses 8Mb added to its own 8Mb. Linux just thinks it has
120Mb of ram.
>> mem=250M - slow
>> mem=252M - slow
>> mem=256M - hangs on boot,
Do not know why it is slow, but it hangs because it is trying to use reserved video
mem.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you...
mailto:[email protected]
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux werewolf 2.4.6-ac2 #1 SMP Sun Jul 8 23:57:11 CEST 2001 i686