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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: 20Mb RAM + Adaptec: Ramdisk to swap?
- Message-ID: <BzD0sy.Exy@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 16:07:45 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
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- >I have 20 MB Ram in my 486/33 and an Adaptec 1542 with an SCSI drive.
- >Therefore I have the #define in the kernel not to use more than
- >16 MB of RAM, because of the DMA.
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- There is no need to do this with the current kernel. The scsi code
- correctly handles the situations where you have more than 16Mb memory, so you
- might as well just let the kernel use all 20 Mb.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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