Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:23:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits |
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, A.D.F. wrote: > Max. RAM size: 64 GB (any slowness accessing RAM over 4 GB > with 32 bit machines ?)
realistic benchmarks (unixbench) will show about 3%-6% performance degradation with use of PAE. Note that this is not "accessing RAM over 4G" but (what you probably meant) "accessing any RAM in a machine with over 4G of RAM" or even "accessing any RAM in a machine with less than 4G or RAM but running kernel capable of accessing >4G". If you really meant "accessing RAM over 4G" then you are probably talking about 36bit MTRR support which is present in recent 2.4.x kernels and works very nicely!
You can construct artificial benchmarks that will show 10% performance degradation. I haven't compared this with other PAE implementation, e.g. that of UnixWare 7.1.1+ -- this would be a very useful exercise as I vaguely remember some people claiming that Linux PAE implementation is not ideal (if it is true then it ought to be made ideal to be inline with the rest of the kernel).
Regards, Tigran
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