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Colin wrote: |
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> On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote: |
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>> Mark Shields wrote: |
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>>> mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem |
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>>> MemTotal: 1034284 kB |
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>>> MemFree: 953172 kB |
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>>> Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. |
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>> I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS |
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>> options. All of those "cache this or that ROM into memory" options |
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>> eat some some ram. You can disable those to try and get some more |
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>> memory, but your system performance will probably suffer overall. |
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> Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS after |
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> the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just a waste |
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> of memory if you're using Gentoo. Caching video RAM was nice back in |
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> the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video cards, shut |
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> off that option. |
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Just to point out, PCI Express is abbreviated "PCIe". PCI-X is a |
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different thing. |
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