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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:30
Message-Id: 9D362B8D-5A07-4BC5-B1A0-123F31E2C3C0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB by Daniel van Ham Colchete
1 On 29 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote:
2 > ...
3 > The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it
4 > should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem
5 > option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available but it will be damn
6 > slow (really).
7 > ...
8 > My processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86Ghz). The motherboard
9 > is Intel. I'm running Gentoo at 32bits mode and the kernel version
10 > is 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.
11
12 Hi there,
13
14 Does your Intel motherboard feature the 945PM chipset?
15
16 I read about this last week:
17 http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/2007-July/
18 018031.html
19
20 Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete@×××××.com>