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From: "Daniel Harvey" <daniel@amristar.com.au>
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Subject: RE: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
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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
>

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