From: seindal@diku.dk (Rene' Seindal) Subject: Re: Linux slow > 16 MB Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:46:21 GMT
RSanson@massey.ac.nz (R.L. Sanson) writes:
>RE: Linux slow > 16 MB
>I have recently increased my memory from 8 MB to 20 MB, and I must
>admit X operations (moving windows, bringing up menus etc.) seem
>much slower. Previously I used an 8 MB swap partition, which I
>removed with the additional RAM.
>Should I pull out 4 MB and drop back to 16 MB? My system is a 33 MHz
>Cyrix 486 DLC system.
I had a similar problem upgrading from 4 to 20 MB. Compiling a kernel took
50 minutes instead of the usual 5 minutes. The solution was in the
bios-setup. The machine only cached the first 4 MB in the on-chip caches,
leaving 16 MB uncached, and therefore much slower. Check your bios-setup.
Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk)