Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:10:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:10:01 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:50833 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:10:01 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:15:09 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Tim Connors Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: small memory machine, large reserved memory Message-ID: <20021104021509.GS23425@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Tim Connors , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1415 Lines: 28 On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:10:36PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > In light of the recent discussions about config_tiny, etc, I decided to > install 2.4.19 on my old 8MB 486, to see whether it performed any better > than my previous attempts with 2.2.* and 2.4.* > The strange thing is, the memory init line at bootup (eg Memory: > 255296k/261996k available (1584k kernel code, 5972k reserved, 1353k data > , 108k init, 0k highmem)) says that only about 5 or 6MB are availabel, > with a whopping 2.x MB reserved. I have done a web search, and the only > answer I have come up with is that the top 384kb of the 1MB lower > portion of RAM should be here, but what else could be eating up all my > RAM? > There is nothgin suspicious in the BIOS - all BIOS and video caching is > turned off. The machine only (natually) has ISA slots in it, most are > empty. What else could possibly be wrong? > Is there something I can hack in the kernel to get it to use that, or can > anyone give me pointers as to what else I can change? I would really love > to regain that 2MB - its a pain when the shell gets swapped out after > doing an `ls` :) How does 2.5.44 (or 2.5.x-bk) do? Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/