subject:"\[OT\] Why so much memory 'reserved'\?"

Re: [OT] Why so much memory 'reserved'?

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Cox

> This is an offtopic question. What determines the amount of 'reserved' memory, > and how much to reserve? The BIOS > Is there a way I can 'regain' this memory from the system, especially in cases > when there's only 32MB to work with? In theory if ACPI isnt being used we can reclaim some of

[OT] Why so much memory 'reserved'?

2001-02-05 Thread Byron Stanoszek

This is an offtopic question. What determines the amount of 'reserved' memory, and how much to reserve? With 2.4.1-ac3, I came up with the following different memory readings for both a Pentium 166 and an Athlon 750. Pentium 166: (96MB RAM) BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

[OT] Why so much memory 'reserved'?

2001-02-05 Thread Byron Stanoszek

This is an offtopic question. What determines the amount of 'reserved' memory, and how much to reserve? With 2.4.1-ac3, I came up with the following different memory readings for both a Pentium 166 and an Athlon 750. Pentium 166: (96MB RAM) BIOS-provided physical RAM map: