Colin wrote:
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.
Just to point out, PCI Express is abbreviated "PCIe". PCI-X is a
different thing.
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