On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 19:50, Gabriel Tataranu wrote: > For those interested: > > The performance issues (below) where due to a strange bug in the kernel > VM triggered by the motherboard BIOS. This affects Asus P4P800 > motherboards(-MX and -VM tested) with more that 1 GB RAM. The built-in > VGA can use 1-32 MB RAM for display but configured with less than 16 MB > of video RAM the board will behave EXTREMELY poor in linux (2.6.9 also > tested to behave like this).
I'll take a guess. Can you send me the boot dmesg and /proc/mtrr of both the slow and the normal cases. I think I know what the BIOS is doing and I've been looking for a system doing this so I can find a vict^H^H^Holunteer to test some ideas out. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
