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["Alejandro Lieber" <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

On 17 Jan 05 at 15:36, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> 
> > I transferred my 10Mby BL3 loop to hda2 in a 8Mbytes 486DLC.
> > MidNight Commander and Mutt are included. No X.
> >
> >
> > These are the results:
> >
> >                             Loop            hda2
> >
> > Loading time              22 secs          17 secs
> > Free (used)               6052 Kbytes      3596 Kbytes
> >      (free)                980 Kbytes      3436 Kbytes
> >
> > It seems that working in loop, nearly 2500 Kbytes more memory is
> > required.
> >
> 
> I cannot duplicate your results.  I get the following for FREE using 
> mem=3M in my loadlin line (or similarly for 8M):
> 
>     TOTAL   USED    FREE    SHARED  BUFFERS
> loop    1716    1468    248 480 360
> 
> hd  1716    1516    200 484 144
> I had several modules automatically loaded (ppp, slh, parport, 
> parport_pc).

I also have several modules automatically loaded.
Midnight Commander is also loaded automatically to tty2.

To compare with what I get, I think you should try with 8Mby of 
memory.

Sindi, don't you have a keyboard module loaded ?
In what country are you ?

Alejandro.



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