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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1272 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:33:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: 386BSD - much slower with 16MB Message-ID: <1993Feb12.155404.21726@sci34hub.sci.com> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al. References: <C2809r.6vz@rahul.net> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 15:54:04 GMT Lines: 26 In article <C2809r.6vz@rahul.net> kent@rahul.net (Kent Talarico) writes: >I just increased my memory from 8MB to 16MB and the machine has >slowed down drastically. What kind of motherboard do you have? Does it have cache? How big is the cache? What kind of processor are you using? Is this new memory on the CPUs local bus, or on an I/O card? >Anyone know what's causing this, and is there a fix? Just guessing, but I'd suspect you have a Gateway 2000 system with 64K of cache, which doesn't properly support 16MB of main memory. Try disabling the cache, and running the compile again with 8MB. You'll probably see about the same compile time as the 16MB configuration. If you used the I/O bus to add memory, there's no hope. It's too slow. -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. Remember: A majority of the American people voted against *all* of the Presidential Candidates. How encouraging....