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Cockbrandtoday at 2:52 AM0 repliesview on HN

Around the turn of the millennium I had a Sony Vaio 505TX, which had the same chipset. My machine was running Linux, and I maxed it out to 128MB RAM.

There was a kernel patch for this chipset back then, which treated all memory above the lower 64MB as a RAM disk, which could then be used as swap space.

This prioritized the faster portion of RAM while still having very fast swapping.