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10637: Re: [MUD-Dev] memory and speed

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@varesearch.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:00:58 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:28:31 -0700 (PDT) 
Matthew Mihaly <diablo@best.com> wrote:

> We tripled our memory today, from 128 megs to 384 megs, but we
> seem to actually have slowed down. In fact, adding more memory has
> definitely slowed us down. Some tasks are taking nearly twice as
> long as before. This is extremely upsetting, to say the
> least. Anyone have any ideas?

What kernel rev are you running?  

Do you have the large memory patch installed, and/or does your
kernel correctly find all the memory? (cf LILO options)

Does the problem resolve if you now remove the memory?

What version of libc/glibc?

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