Re: Problems with too much memory (?)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Apr 1997 18:37:02 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970426142745.10545D-100000@xgw15.pal.xgw.fi>
By author: Tuomas Heino <tbittih@xgw.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> MB is propably the cause... but anyway why doesn't Linux support
> non-cached ram... too complex and/or not worth it? ('swapping' to
> non-cached ram should still be quite a bit faster than swapping to harddisk)
>
Some people have been known to hack the RAMdisk driver to get a RAM
disk in non-cached memory; then swap to the RAMdisk. This seems to
work, but I've never seen it supported in the official RAMdisk driver.
-hpa
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