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-There are several classic problems related to memory on Linux
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-systems.
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- 1) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
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- a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these
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- motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster
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- as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
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- motherboard.
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-All of these problems can be addressed with the "mem=XXXM" boot option
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-(where XXX is the size of RAM to use in megabytes).
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-It can also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed.
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-If you use "mem=" on a machine with PCI, consider using "memmap=" to avoid
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-physical address space collisions.
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-See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, grub, loadlin, etc.) about
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-how to pass options to the kernel.
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-There are other memory problems which Linux cannot deal with. Random
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-corruption of memory is usually a sign of serious hardware trouble.
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-Try:
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- * Reducing memory settings in the BIOS to the most conservative
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- timings.
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- * Adding a cooling fan.
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- * Not overclocking your CPU.
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- * Having the memory tested in a memory tester or exchanged
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- with the vendor. Consider testing it with memtest86 yourself.
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- * Exchanging your CPU, cache, or motherboard for one that works.
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