Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64

From: Sergei Haller (Sergei.Haller_at_math.uni-giessen.de)
Date: 09/20/04

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    Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:19:38 +1000 (EST)
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org

    On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Jon Masters (JM) wrote:

    JM> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:47:20 +1000 (EST), Sergei Haller
    JM>
    JM> > I guess I should write a simple C-program using malloc or something to
    JM> > reproduce the crash in the simplest possible way, shouldn't I?
    JM>
    JM> You've answered your own question Sergei. Thing is - you mentioned the
    JM> AGP aperature settings in your original post [...]

    well, AGP and PCI I mentioned only as "the bad guys stealing the memory"
    and as the reason to why I wanted to spilt the main memory in two 2gb
    blocks or in 3gb+1gb, one block being at the normal address range and the
    other at the addresses >4gb

    JM> but we have to rule out stuff like X

    I guess, you're right in htis.

    JM> Try a simple test case and then see if you can give any other handy
    JM> details on your situation.

    thanks so far,

            Sergei 

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