Re: HIGHMEM4G config for 1GB RAM on desktop?

[Barry K. Nathan]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:02:34PM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
> There seems to be a controversy about the use of the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G  
> kernel configuration.  After reading many posts on the subject, I still 
> don't know which setting is best for me.

On my own desktop system with 1GB RAM, any highmem slowdown seems to be
outweighed by the fact that more disk data stays cached in RAM (so I hit
the disk much less often).

Everyone else I know has also found the extra RAM to greatly outweigh
the highmem slowdown, although those people are running clusters &
servers, not desktops, with this much RAM.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
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