Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:57:53 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram Message-ID: <199803042057.RAA09986@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199803042038.MAA22209@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 4, 98 12:38:26 pm"
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#define quoting(Mike Smith) // > Hi, // > // > What kind of problem could I expect from FreeBSD if I run a TX // > chipset motherboard with 128M RAM ? // // Your performance will suck. // // > This chipset can only cache // > 64M. Anything other than performance ? Is it possible to force // > FreeBSD to use the low 64M preferentially ? // // Take the top 64M out. Isn't this worse ? // Seriously, it's going to cost you less to replace the board with one // wearing an HX chipset than the time that the TX board will waste you. The problem is that the original HX board for this server is failing. I'm trying to buy an PII FX board, but until that I needed something with memory. Swapping would be worst that having some more wait states in memory, would not ? My worries are more with memory coerence, or some strange effect, other than performance only. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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