From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IEwUQ-00088x-D0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:18:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6T0GSv1003576; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:16:28 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6T0Aq5A029540 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:10:53 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so1352673wah for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=K3GUI1jmjHlaWF4FIrCI14cMiP6CqMpz4N53p1dk7DnCdeh6+t6zRxO35L78eKWjO7tfGd+LGRF88bDviXoI184WIX5FXZ1MGuge7HK4gmdBMYbpHR6YH4+zyZwUUKHxPSFn6ppQhKmrIhfy6YAgIaFsdaFY0XrrmZFRWLUMu1I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=fDa1VH5D85D02M1pJtCFYbvEpE5ScyVB0aBELI9ZYmgS4jRTxTfXqGH5aKY75b04OTdqNas02+1ASu5um6RqaZG+rGTQ1xWz7tLN94tHLu440MSlRntkcZs9UEvRxAbNolXvUkqlQW02JlzD72K7IkDv3pdejO3R7tVebAyDZnE= Received: by 10.114.149.2 with SMTP id w2mr4268831wad.1185667852464; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.169.18 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0c7af10707281710t1d194f96n82a0f82577031b47@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:10:52 -0300 From: "Daniel van Ham Colchete" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB In-Reply-To: <1185666727.14058.4.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_18600_9189494.1185667852425" References: <8a0c7af10707281628p61dac9f1x89aef31a6f2b71df@mail.gmail.com> <1185665991.14058.2.camel@localhost> <1185666727.14058.4.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: bcef3114-a78f-40d2-82ee-6632cc081094 X-Archives-Hash: 218eefecc74db3a041fe9735d0312bd2 ------=_Part_18600_9189494.1185667852425 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 7/28/07, Tim Allingham wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote: > > I don't actually run 4GB of RAM in any of my intel systems, so I can't > > comment from experience, however my suspicion would be the overhead > > introduced from PAE, which (at least on older kernels) requires some > > processing overhead to utilise. Are you able to try a 64-bit install to > > determine if this is the case? > > > > Regards, > > > > Tim Allingham > > Email:Tim@DataFirst-IT.com.au > > just to add, this page gives a reasonable explanation of the problems > with 32-bit OS's trying to address large RAM volumes > > http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm > > That is very very very sad... The fact is I can't use 64bits for now... So let's take one gig out! Thanks for your help!!!! Daniel ------=_Part_18600_9189494.1185667852425 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 7/28/07, Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote:
> I don't actually run 4GB of RAM in any of my intel systems, so I can't
> comment from experience, however my suspicion would be the overhead
> introduced from PAE, which (at least on older kernels) requires some
> processing overhead to utilise.  Are you able to try a 64-bit install to
> determine if this is the case?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Allingham
> Email:Tim@DataFirst-IT.com.au

just to add, this page gives a reasonable explanation of the problems
with 32-bit OS's trying to address large RAM volumes

http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm


That is very very very sad...
The fact is I can't use 64bits for now... So let's take one gig out!
Thanks for your help!!!!

Daniel
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