It is possible, depending upon the chipset on your motherboard,
to see a slowdown with additional RAM due to caching issues.
The Sony VAIO 505TR is an example of a system exhibiting this
behavior.
So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing
with an older chipset on the motherboard. IIRC most P-II boards
should be OK, and all P-III boards should be. Pentium based
systems are a toss-up.
This may or may not be the issue for the current discussion, but
people tend to stumble upon this on a fairly regular basis.
Regards,
--Kit
> Hi CH,
>
> > another 128mb and upgraded to 256mb and I did notice performance drop.
>
> Hmmm I havent seen any performance decrease but then I upgraded my system at
> the same time as getting the extra memory anyway. Was the performance
> problem mostly under Linux or Windows?
>
> > large files so it's a trade off. I plan later for VMWare so I decided to
> > keep 256mb even if Windows 98 is feeling overwhelmed with amount of ram and
> > Linux is taking it well even with a tiny performance drop.
>
> AFAIK Windows 95/98/Me won't use any memory past 128Mb but Windows NT/2000
> should use all 256Mb. Linux will of course use all 256Mb.
>
> I primarily got 256Mb so I can run VMware with 128Mb for the virtual machines
> to use and it is working very well. I'm hardly using any swap at all now 8)
>
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