Re: File copy is very slow on linux-3.4.2 (or linux-3.3x) on a specifichardware: AMD FX-8150 + 990FX (solved?)

[Rik van Riel]

On 06/13/2012 04:37 PM, Wallak wrote:

> HighTotal: 8052692 kB HighTotal: 8052692 kB
> HighFree: 7978664 kB | HighFree: 6227412 kB
> LowTotal: 229508 kB LowTotal: 229508 kB
> LowFree: 195804 kB | LowFree: 148948 kB

Did the BIOS remap essentially all of the low memory
to end up above the 1GB boundary?

This does not look like a system that should be run
with a 32 bit kernel, since it only has 200MB of lowmem,
giving you a 40:1 highmem:lowmem ratio, which is really
too much to run well.
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