With 16 meg the system runs fine -- no problems (just lots of swapping).
With 32 meg, ifconfig generates a kernel oops. I would include the text
here, but I don't have tmy machine up and running at the moment.
I think the problem is with the special code for the le.c driver that
allocates buffers under the 16M limit of the dma chips on the ethernet
card.
I have a number of older kernels, and I will see if I can figure out which
kernel this broke in (I had 32M before briefly -- just to see if it would
speed my system up -- and everything worked fine then). I am curious if
anyone else has seen this behavior?
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