Re: x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-10 Thread Bo Brantén
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Bo Brantén wrote: After I uppgraded the BIOS the mtrr looks like below, and now it works if I boot with mem=4736M so I can use all memory but it still doesn't work without the mem parameter then it will run as slow as before. I noticed that after I uppgraded the BI

Re: x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-05 Thread Bo Brantén
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0xc000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xcf80 (3320MB), size= 8MB: uncachable

Re: x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-05 Thread Bo Brantén
After I uppgraded the BIOS the mtrr looks like below, and now it works if I boot with mem=4736M so I can use all memory but it still doesn't work without the mem parameter then it will run as slow as before. reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8

Re: x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-05 Thread Bo Brantén
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: This is typically due to a problem with the setup of your MTRRs. Try This is the output from cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base

Re: x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-03 Thread Bo Brantén
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: This is typically due to a problem with the setup of your MTRRs. Try booting with mem=nnnM where nnn is some number smaller than your actual amount of memory. Thank you for that advice, the system has 4GB and if I boot with mem=3072M it will run as fast

x86_64 ten times slower than i386

2007-11-03 Thread Bo Brantén
Hello, I tryed different linux distributions on a computer with an Intel Core 2 Quad and I noticed that the 64-bit versions was at least 10 times slower than the 32-bit versions, to boot the system took over 20 minutes in 64-bit mode and then even scrolling text at the command prompt felt slo

Romfs ported to Windows NT/2000

2001-04-21 Thread Bo Brantén
The Romfs driver in Linux has been ported to Windows NT/2000. The source code is available under the terms of GPL at: http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Bo Branten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m