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From: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, vasya vasyaev <vasya197@yahoo.com>
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Subject: RE: Machine's high load when HIGHMEM is enabled
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:49:26 -0800 
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Also try to disable BIOS remapping in the BIOS setup menu, if any. I know
some BIOS that forgot to reset the proper memory attribute in the MTRR(s)
after the remapping.

Jun

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: vasya vasyaev
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Machine's high load when HIGHMEM is enabled
> 
> vasya vasyaev wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > First of all - thanks to these people, who responded
> > to my question.
> >
> > I have some news...
> >
> > I've tried kernels:
> > 2.4.19 - the same result
> > 2.5.44 - the same result
> > 2.5.45 - the same result
> >
> > If I take 1 Gb of memory away, then computer works
> > much better, faster (something like without enabled
> > HIGHMEM at all).
> > The same effect takes place if I say mem=1024M while
> > physically box has 2Gb of RAM - everything is fine!
> > But if I start HIGHMEM enabled kernel on this box (2Gb
> > RAM), then it works too slowly...
> >
> 
> Please ensure that the mtrr driver is enabled in kernel config,
> boot with mem=2G and send the output of `cat /proc/mtrr'.
> 
> Also, `dmesg | head -120' would be interesting.
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