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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-10-08 19:33:25 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 03:22:57 -0400 |
commit | 00ea8990aadf754bbbb46ae85d4f2afba19508d8 (patch) | |
tree | 6154b7faba1e6887f74d9808b74ddf8c148f918b | |
parent | 957f822a0ab95e88b146638bad6209bbc315bedd (diff) |
memory.txt: remove stray information
Andi removed some outedated documentation from Documentation/memory.txt
back in 2009 by commit 3b2b9a875ddc ("Documentation/memory.txt: remove
some very outdated recommendations"), but the resulting document is not
in a nice shape either.
It seems to me like we are not losing anything by completely removing the
file now.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory.txt | 33 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory.txt b/Documentation/memory.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 802efe58647c..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/memory.txt +++ /dev/null | |||
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1 | There are several classic problems related to memory on Linux | ||
2 | systems. | ||
3 | |||
4 | 1) There are some motherboards that will not cache above | ||
5 | a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these | ||
6 | motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster | ||
7 | as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your | ||
8 | motherboard. | ||
9 | |||
10 | All of these problems can be addressed with the "mem=XXXM" boot option | ||
11 | (where XXX is the size of RAM to use in megabytes). | ||
12 | It can also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed. | ||
13 | If you use "mem=" on a machine with PCI, consider using "memmap=" to avoid | ||
14 | physical address space collisions. | ||
15 | |||
16 | See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, grub, loadlin, etc.) about | ||
17 | how to pass options to the kernel. | ||
18 | |||
19 | There are other memory problems which Linux cannot deal with. Random | ||
20 | corruption of memory is usually a sign of serious hardware trouble. | ||
21 | Try: | ||
22 | |||
23 | * Reducing memory settings in the BIOS to the most conservative | ||
24 | timings. | ||
25 | |||
26 | * Adding a cooling fan. | ||
27 | |||
28 | * Not overclocking your CPU. | ||
29 | |||
30 | * Having the memory tested in a memory tester or exchanged | ||
31 | with the vendor. Consider testing it with memtest86 yourself. | ||
32 | |||
33 | * Exchanging your CPU, cache, or motherboard for one that works. | ||