Re: Kernel upgrade 2.4 -> 2.6, makes system very slow on laptop with 1GB of memory: BIOS caching bug

Now for my system, I need them as they are. If I turn off the
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y I will be unable to see the top 4GBytes of RAM, and if I
turn off the CONFIG_X86_4G=y then it will build a kernel that gives itself 1
GByte of address space, and the user only 3 GBytes, but if I have it on like
this, both the users and the kernel can get up to 4 GBytes if they want it.

I guess if you have more than 4 Gigs of RAM in your system my comments
are not really useful... They are also irrelevant if your bios does not
have that caching bug i mentioned...

best,

mark

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