Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: test10-pre1 problems on 4-way SuperServer8050 | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:59:20 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I will continue to narrow down by removing some things (like mtrr) from > > > the equation. Rik, the problem is that when one enables PAE (or just > > > highmem-4G) support on a 4-way 6G RAM machine becomes 38-40 times slower. > > > > What happens if you boot a PAE kernel with mem=512M on that box ? > > > > it works fine then. Kernel compiles in 68 seconds as it should. Shall I > keep incrementing mem= to see what happens next...
The threshold is probably >1Gig, but see where it actually is, thats the point the other zones and memory juggling kicks in
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