Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-08-01 Thread Duane Griffin
On 29/07/07, Daniel van Ham Colchete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone!!! May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here with 4GB of RAM memory. The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel van Ham Colchete
On 7/28/07, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: ... The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-30 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Daniel van Ham Colchete skrev: actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation... Thats not true, I run 32bit Gentoo with 4 GB Memory and has no slowdown issues I can measure with the naked eye. Seems to me like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-30 Thread Developer Edoceo
On 7/30/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel van Ham Colchete skrev: actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation... Thats not true, I run 32bit Gentoo with 4 GB Memory and has no slowdown

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel van Ham Colchete
On 7/30/07, Developer Edoceo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/30/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel van Ham Colchete skrev: actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation... Thats not

[gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel van Ham Colchete
Hello everyone!!! May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here with 4GB of RAM memory. The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Allingham
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 20:28 -0300, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: Hello everyone!!! May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here with 4GB of RAM memory. The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Allingham
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 20:28 -0300, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: Hello everyone!!! May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here with 4GB of RAM memory. The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: ... The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't put the mem option, Linux will see 4GB of memory available but it will be damn slow (really). ... My

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel van Ham Colchete
On 7/28/07, Tim Allingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote: I don't actually run 4GB of RAM in any of my intel systems, so I can't comment from experience, however my suspicion would be the overhead introduced from PAE, which (at least on