Boot time memory issue

2001-05-20 Thread Barry Lustig
I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly recognize it. It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. Current

Re: Boot time memory issue

2001-05-26 Thread Barry Lustig
Valentin Nechayev wrote: > > Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory >issue": > > Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least, > 2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..."

Re: Boot time memory issue

2001-05-26 Thread Barry Lustig
Mike Smith wrote: > > > Here are the SMAP lines: > > > > SMAP type=01 base= len= 0009f800 > > SMAP type=02 base= 0009f800 len= 0800 > > SMAP type=02 base= 000e8400 len= 00017c00 > > SMAP type=01 base= 0010 len= 13ef0

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-15 Thread Barry Lustig
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I'm always tempted to set up a company where the main > engineers have a centralized batch compile server, so as to > not slow down developement, but requiring that they run no > better than a 386SX/16 on their desktop. If they are good, > I'd gi

VMware hanging -- Memory deadlock?

2000-12-03 Thread Barry Lustig
I have a vaio z505le with 192MB running 4.2-STABLE (cvsupped today). I've been trying to get vmware running properly on it. I first configured vmware on the vaio, created a win2k type virtual disk, set ram in the VM to 80M, and copied a happily working win2k virtual disk from another sys