Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:01:09 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: severe performance degradation on serverworks with high mem |
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:45:05PM -0700, Brian C. Thomas wrote: > Hi > > I don't know if this helps, but I seem to have stumbled onto a > possible "fix" for this... > > With 64GB high memory enabled in kernel 2.4.12-ac3, and mtrr turned > on, I was able to see all 8GB RAM on my machine by using the old > 'append="mem=8000M"' command in my lilo.conf file... AND WITH NO LOSS > OF PERFORMANCE! > > Does that help anyone with defining where this problem is coming from? >
The real question is how to reproduce the > 2hr kernel compiles.
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