Really, REALLY slow computer
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Apr 19 20:53:22 UTC 2007
Billy Davis wrote:
> We had this same problem 18 months ago with RHEL 3. Turns out it was a
> memory problem. As long as we ran with 512MB, everything ran fast and
> fine. But, when we increased the memory to 1GB and higher, something
> happened to slow the system to aan unbelievable crawl. Seems like there
> was a bios upgrade from Intel that fixed the problem.
>
> Bdavis
>
That sounds like a version of this problem: (from memory.txt in the
kernel docs...)
3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these
motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster
as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
motherboard.
Mikkel
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