Re: Does linux first allocate under 64MB?

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:42:34 +0200


Hi!

> If you put more memory in one of those machines, will linux first use the
> lower 64MB, and then the rest? Is there any way to prioritize
> memory like

No. Only working solution I've seen (and I've had working on my
computer) was to use uncachable memory as ramdisk. Maybe there's patch
(called slowmem) somewhere, or I could generate one.
Pavel

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