[ltp] Memory management

Scott Cytacki linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
11 Mar 2001 10:30:24 -0500


Check out http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm
Look under the Memory section.  To summarize: you have to tell linux how
much mem you have.
But check out the link for the details.

Also of interest: the latest bios for the 600x claims to fix this
problem.
I haven't tried it yet.

Scott


On 11 Mar 2001 08:52:01 -0600, chris christensen wrote:
> On my TP600 I've notice that everything above 64 megs of memory is cached. I
> have 96 installed and I  noted 97228 during the insstall. Linux only
> detected 64.  Is this typical of how Linux handles memory?
> 
> Running Mandrake seems a bit slower than Win 98 on the other partition.
> 
> Chris Christensen
> 
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