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 1IEwXK-0003dC-74 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6T0KC2t008114; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:20:12 GMT Received: from mra05.ch.as12513.net (mra05.ch.as12513.net [82.153.254.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6T0D38g031884 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:13:03 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra05.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F042C4949 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:13:03 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra05.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra05.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02382-01-74 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:13:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org [213.152.39.90]) by mra05.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800ECC4603 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:13:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.10.191] (unknown [192.168.1.200]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2779713780D for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:12:57 +0100 (BST) 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 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <8a0c7af10707281628p61dac9f1x89aef31a6f2b71df@mail.gmail.com> References: <8a0c7af10707281628p61dac9f1x89aef31a6f2b71df@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9D362B8D-5A07-4BC5-B1A0-123F31E2C3C0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:12:56 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: 35a022a4-c167-4a42-8c9d-03a263255b26 X-Archives-Hash: 6c6866901f017e60ffe007610511747b 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list