[MUD-Dev] memory and speed

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:34:31 -0700 (PDT) 
Adam Wiggins <adam at angel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
>> We tripled our memory today, from 128 megs to 384 megs, but we
>> seem to actually have slowed down. In fact, adding more memory
>> has definitely slowed us down. Some tasks are taking nearly twice
>> as long as before. This is extremely upsetting, to say the
>> least. Anyone have any ideas?

> Doh!

> Something is definitely not right.  

I haven't verified this, but I faintly recall rumours of certain
chipsets on certain motherboards having this sort of behaviour.  I'd
recommend searching the Linux-kernel archives on Mail Archive
(http://www.mail-archive.com/).

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