From: Luca Montecchiani <m.luca@iname.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [FAQ?] More ram=less performance (maximum cacheable RAM)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:27:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8350D3.CDE749E1@iname.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B82B988.50DE308A@iname.com> <200108211957.f7LJvEt20846@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <998430817.3139.41.camel@phantasy>
Robert Love wrote:
>
> It also has nothing to do with Linux. Some motherboard's TAG RAM do not
> allow for caching more than xMB.
I'm just proposing to update the FAQ to help people like me
that thinking to gain speed doubling the system ram have seen
a severe performance drop for certain task like compiling the
kernel .
Answer :
It has nothing to do with Linux, maybe your motherboard's TAG Ram
do not allow for caching more than xMB.
ciao,
luca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-21 19:42 [FAQ?] More ram=less performance (maximum cacheable RAM) Luca Montecchiani
2001-08-21 19:57 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-21 20:38 ` Luca Montecchiani
2001-08-21 21:53 ` Robert Love
2001-08-22 6:27 ` Luca Montecchiani [this message]
2001-08-22 11:12 ` Wakko Warner
2001-08-22 21:26 ` idalton
2001-08-23 5:19 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-23 11:35 ` Luca Montecchiani
2001-08-28 14:23 ` Holger Lubitz
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2001-08-21 22:01 Samium Gromoff
2001-08-22 9:49 Samium Gromoff
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