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DateWed, 23 Apr 1997 09:24:30 +0100 (GMT/BST)
FromMike Jagdis <>
SubjectRe: Problems with too much memory (?)
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:

> When I removed 4MB SIMM, compilation time went down to 22 minutes. I
> thought that it is hardware problem, but I wanted to investigate it more.
> So I put memory back and limited memory to 16M (mem=16M). Compile time
> stayed at about 22 minutes.
>
> So I suspect linux tfor having problems with too much memory.

Linux has no problem. Your hardware simply cannot cache more than
16MB.

Mike

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