From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 4 12:59:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25294 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24900 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09986; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:57:53 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199803042057.RAA09986@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram In-Reply-To: <199803042038.MAA22209@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 4, 98 12:38:26 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:57:53 -0300 (EST) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org #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