Re: Really, REALLY slow computer
Billy Davis wrote:
We had this same problem 18 months ago with RHEL 3. Turns out it was
a
memory problem. As long as we ran with 512MB, everything ran fast and
fine. But, when we increased the memory to 1GB and higher, something
happened to slow the system to aan unbelievable crawl. Seems like there
was a bios upgrade from Intel that fixed the problem.
Bdavis
That sounds like a version of this problem: (from memory.txt in the
kernel docs...)
3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these
motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster
as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
motherboard.
Mikkel
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