On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote:
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree: 953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your
BIOS options. All of those "cache this or that ROM into memory"
options eat some some ram. You can disable those to try and get
some more memory, but your system performance will probably suffer
overall.
Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS
after the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just
a waste of memory if you're using Gentoo. Caching video RAM was nice
back in the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video
cards, shut off that option.
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Colin
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