Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:02:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ben LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre1 problems on 4-way SuperServer8050 |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> it works fine then. Kernel compiles in 68 seconds as it should. Shall I > keep incrementing mem= to see what happens next...
I suspect fixing the mtrrs on the machine will fix this problem, as a 38-40 times slowdown on a machine that isn't swapping is most likely a lack of memory caching (as Rik pointed out 38-40 times is right on the nose for the difference in speed between the cache and main memory).
-ben
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