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04-03-2008, 02:46 PM
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 Re: HIMEM.SYS strikes back! re. On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:00:38PM +0000, mickey wrote: > re > 80s are back and so is HIMEM.SYS now for the modern 32bit > architecture known as i386 or "that intel crap." > > yes as you can have guessed already it gives your >4G > memory another chance at life reincarnated as scsi disk. > > http://mickey.lucifier.net/himem.sys > > you can read it write it and damn swap on it if you want! > credit shall be given to mpf@ for a productive discussion > where this most atypical concept had been born few months > ago and later became stations creation in about 30h (and > a bottle of port) and later debugged/tested in a few more > other more sober hours... you gotta be freekin kidding me. just ONE bottle of port!?! cel > few caveats: > - man page coming soon! > - booting is not supported (yet); > - one needs to disklabel+newfs(or dd(2) some image) it before use; > - it will get some performance improvement; > - not stress-tested much (yet). > > here is samples: > himem0 at root: size 768MB > scsibus2 at himem0: 1 targets > sd2 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <McIkye, HIMEM drive, 1.0> SCSI2 0/direct fixed > sd2: 768MB, 12 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 4096 bytes/sec, 196608 sec total > > # dd if=/dev/rsd2c of=/dev/null bs=256k > 3072+0 records in > 3072+0 records out > 805306368 bytes transferred in 0.806 secs (998241492 bytes/sec) > > # ps auxwwk | fgrep himem > root 17 1.2 0.0 0 0 ?? DK 5:33PM 0:00.41 (himem.sys) > > > -- > paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained) -- Christopher Linn <celinn at mtu.edu> | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.      |
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