Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB

["Daniel van Ham Colchete" <daniel.colchete@gmail.com>]

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On 7/28/07, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 29 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote:
> > ...
> > The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it
> > should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem
> > option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available but it will be damn
> > slow (really).
> > ...
> > My processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86Ghz). The motherboard
> > is Intel. I'm running Gentoo at 32bits mode and the kernel version
> > is 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does your Intel motherboard feature the 945PM chipset?
>
> I read about this last week:
> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/2007-July/
> 018031.html
>
> Stroller.
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>

Stoller,

actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a
chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation...

Best,
Daniel

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