Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64

[Sergei Haller]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Jon Masters (JM) wrote:

JM> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:47:20 +1000 (EST), Sergei Haller 
JM> 
JM> > I guess I should write a simple C-program using malloc or something to
JM> > reproduce the crash in the simplest possible way, shouldn't I?
JM> 
JM> You've answered your own question Sergei. Thing is - you mentioned the
JM> AGP aperature settings in your original post [...]

well, AGP and PCI I mentioned only as "the bad guys stealing the memory"
and as the reason to why I wanted to spilt the main memory in two 2gb 
blocks or in 3gb+1gb, one block being at the normal address range and the 
other at the addresses >4gb

JM> but we have to rule out stuff like X 

I guess, you're right in htis.

JM> Try a simple test case and then see if you can give any other handy
JM> details on your situation.


thanks so far,

        Sergei
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