Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64

[Sergei Haller]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Andrew Walrond (AW) wrote:

AW> On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 15:56, Sergei Haller wrote:
AW> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Andrew Walrond (AW) wrote:
AW> >
AW> > AW>
AW> > AW> On further investigation, The settings I mentioned, 'Auto' and
AW> > 'Continuous' AW> only work when running a 64bit kernel. Are you running a
AW> > 32bit kernel?
AW> >
AW> > it's a 64bit one. the precise setting for the processor is
AW> > "AMD-Opteron/Athlon64". Should I try "Generic-x86-64"?
AW> 
AW> No - thats what I use. Do you have MTRR support enabled?

yes.

AW> I'll send you my .config file; Perhaps you could try that.

I just had a look at it. tomorrow morning I'll try out some of the 
options. If you like, I can send you my .config, so you can tell me which 
options are more likely to affect memory handling.

c ya
        Sergei
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