Re: [MUD-Dev] memory and speed

[Adam Wiggins <adam#angel,com>]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, S. Patrick Gallaty wrote:
> Yes, seen this one on another machine and it was infuriating and difficult
> to diagnose.  The answer turned out to be that our motherboard didn't have
> sufficient cache to handle above 256M of memory and the memory above it was
> about 4x slower.  This didn't affect people in windows immediately since
> windows uses memory from low to high, but in linux it affected the system
> immediately.
> If you are using an intel based system, and linux this could be your
> problem.

Ack!  My x86/Linux box has 288 megs.  I haven't noticed any problems, but
then again I haven't exactly done any benchmarking (I went up from a K6/233
to a K6-3/400 at the same time that I took the memory over 256M).

Is there an online resource which discusses this problem?  Specifically
I'd like to know which chipsets have this problem so that I can know which
to buy in the future...

Adam W.





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