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10709: [MUD-Dev] Re: memory and speed

On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 01:33:12PM -0700, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> First, thanks to everyone trying to help me with this problem. Second, a
> summary:
> 
> We use an amd k6 400 mhz processor running linux kernel 2.2.1. In response
> to JC's question about libc, we seem to have 2.0.7.so (hopefully that's
> the information you're after). We had 128 megs of Ram, and upgraded to
> 384, which massively slowed things down on Achaea. We removed the extra
> RAM, and the problem resolved itself. We then went up to 256 megs, and the
> same problem still existed. If it matters at all, I'm told that in BIOS,
> memory management is set to automatic or some such thing (I don't have
> access to the physical machine, as it's 3000 miles away from me). We have
> 512k of Level 2 cache. 
> 
> This is incredibly frustrating and disheartening (god I hate technology
> sometimes), and I DO really appreciate the help the list members are
> extending to me in this matter.

While not following this thread terribly closely, you might consider
the age of your motherboard (as I think has been mentioned).  There
was a specific issue of some boards not having enough "tag RAM" to
hold the extra bits needed to cache memory above a certain limit. 
Some boards had an extra socket to plug this tag RAM in--sort of
"batteries not included" I guess.

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