Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-02 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:33:05PM +, andy wrote: both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now. Despite spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on google and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is remotely usef

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 01 March 2008 20:33:05 andy, vous avez écrit : > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > andy: > >> I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > >> > >># kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > >> > >> And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > >> > >> It still took just un

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:33:05PM +, andy wrote: > both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now. Despite > spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on google > and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is remotely > useful. My board is set

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm screen, so I am at a complete loss now.

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > > I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > > And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > > It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm > screen, so I am at a complete loss now. Try a fe

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the mem=xxx option passed to the k

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I u

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the >>> mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter appr

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-29 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter approach, is this something that I can develop a script to do automatically at

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] > with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be > the mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter approach, > is this something that I can develop a script to do automatically at > boot (for example

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: Jochen Schulz wrote: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny >>> can operate with? >> >> No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards >> that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact >> solution anym

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involv

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > > My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny > can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involves telling the kernel how

Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Hi all My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? I have a Lenny machine with an FSB800 board using an Intel P4 chip and has 2 x DDR2-533 RAM slots. I know that the board is supported in Linux http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=03/08/1