From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: vasya vasyaev <vasya197@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Machine's high load when HIGHMEM is enabled
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:27:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC6CA38.1B027BD7@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021104185435.11019.qmail@web20504.mail.yahoo.com
vasya vasyaev wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First of all - thanks to these people, who responded
> to my question.
>
> I have some news...
>
> I've tried kernels:
> 2.4.19 - the same result
> 2.5.44 - the same result
> 2.5.45 - the same result
>
> If I take 1 Gb of memory away, then computer works
> much better, faster (something like without enabled
> HIGHMEM at all).
> The same effect takes place if I say mem=1024M while
> physically box has 2Gb of RAM - everything is fine!
> But if I start HIGHMEM enabled kernel on this box (2Gb
> RAM), then it works too slowly...
>
Please ensure that the mtrr driver is enabled in kernel config,
boot with mem=2G and send the output of `cat /proc/mtrr'.
Also, `dmesg | head -120' would be interesting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-04 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-03 14:17 Machine's high load when HIGHMEM is enabled vasya vasyaev
2002-11-03 14:32 ` Brian Gerst
2002-11-03 15:00 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-04 0:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-04 18:54 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-04 19:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-05 10:36 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-03 15:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-04 19:49 Nakajima, Jun
2002-11-05 9:08 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-05 21:10 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-05 21:38 Nakajima, Jun
2002-11-06 10:14 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-06 16:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 17:10 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 9:29 ` vasya vasyaev
2002-11-19 9:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-20 1:03 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-11-19 15:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
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