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From: Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:09:49
Message-Id: 8a0c7af10707300859l4732bf64ic91d9429fe5162d2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB by Stroller
1 On 7/28/07, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On 29 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote:
5 > > ...
6 > > The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it
7 > > should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem
8 > > option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available but it will be damn
9 > > slow (really).
10 > > ...
11 > > My processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86Ghz). The motherboard
12 > > is Intel. I'm running Gentoo at 32bits mode and the kernel version
13 > > is 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.
14 >
15 > Hi there,
16 >
17 > Does your Intel motherboard feature the 945PM chipset?
18 >
19 > I read about this last week:
20 > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/2007-July/
21 > 018031.html
22 >
23 > Stroller.
24 > --
25 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
26 >
27 >
28
29 Stoller,
30
31 actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a
32 chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation...
33
34 Best,
35 Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB Steen Eugen Poulsen <sep@×××××××××.net>