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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Does os/2 use all 32 meg when installed?
- Message-ID: <727801337rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:02:17 GMT
- References: <rbeebe.24.0@surgery.med.yale.edu> <1993Jan18.170432.62850@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jan20.223933.21998@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.223933.21998@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.170432.62850@cc.usu.edu> slhpv@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >>I have noticed lots of the VESA local bus machines can have local bus
- >>drive controllers. Will this remove the ISA 16 MB limitation?
- >>If so will OS/2 know the limitation is gone?
- >
- >In theory, yes, it would remove the limitation (which, by the way, is
- >only present when the device holding the swap file depends on 24-bit
- >DMA -- this is a rather exceptional circumstance; also, that RAM is
- >still used, but it isn't used quite the same as RAM below the 16 MB
- >line).
- >
- >I haven't been able to confirm this behavior in practice, however -- I
- >have no means of testing it.
-
- By the way, in 2.0, even if you turn paging off completely when using
- 32MB with a 1542B or other busmastering controller in an ISA machine,
- the system will still not work properly. Apparently even normal file
- system access uses direct DMA into all regions of memory which
- obviously fails. The same happens when you put the swap device on a
- IDE drive and the try to access a SCSI device on a 1542B while using
- more than 16MB.
-
- Also BTW, the same happens to 386BSD, so it's not a uniqe OS/2
- problem, it's a limitation of the 1542B on the ISA bus (double
- buffering would solve the problem but degrade performance).
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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