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From: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:28:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465D43C0.60609@dunaweb.hu> (raw)

Hi,

> Look at how slow the raid benchmarks are in dmesg with 8GB of memory!
>
> [   59.592560] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (476 MB/s)
> [   59.597558] raid5: using function: generic_sse (56.000 MB/sec)
>
> Yikes!
>
> With mem=4096M:
> [   60.336352] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (6804 MB/s)
> [   60.341345] raid5: using function: generic_sse (8552.000 MB/sec)
>
> What is going on here?
>
> Justin.

I saw a similar effect on a P5 board that could
only cache 64MB of memory a long time ago.
Putting more memory into it made the machine slower
and e.g. made the sym2 driver giving up at initialization.
Maybe it's a modern reincarnation of the problem?

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi


             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-30  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-30  9:28 Zoltan Boszormenyi [this message]
2007-05-30 11:15 ` Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH Justin Piszcz
2007-05-30 12:43   ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2007-05-30 14:24   ` Case: 225446: Linux " Justin Piszcz

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