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- From: maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.105315.15555@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 14:53:15 GMT
- References: <BuFF20.1tq@constant.demon.co.uk> <2659@aegis.or.jp> <BuILEt.1MG@virtech.uucp>
- Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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- In article <BuILEt.1MG@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
- >davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
- >
- >>>MEMRANGE=0-640K:0,1M-64M:0
- >
- >>I don't see such a file for ISC 3.2 v3.0. Anybody have any ideas?
- >
- >It cannot be done with ISC 2.2 or 3.0 and the testing that I did with 2.0.2
- >made me believe that regarless of the setting of this file the
- >system would start swapping at 16MB...
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- This maybe a stupid question, but what's wrong with doing:
- "MEMRANGE=0-640K:0,1M-16M:0,16M-64M:1"
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- The man page says of the 0/1 flag:
- "0 indicates no special properties and 1 indicates memory for which
- DMA is not allowed."
-