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From: Adam Wiggins <adam@angel.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:45:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
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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