From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 20 08:32:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09131 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [198.232.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09126 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from bug (bug.tasam.com [198.232.144.254]) by tasam.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA05788; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004101bde4ab$bf17a3e0$f10408d1@bug.tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Cc: Subject: Re: over 512 megs memory problems... Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:30:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2110.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That makes sense, do you know of a motherboard that can cache more than 512mb? I just looked in my motherboard manual and it says that it is the L2 cache on the processor that does the caching so the board has none. So should I look for a board that has it's own L2 cache as well? We will be replacing that board anyways because it was doing other annoying things. Joe Gleason Tasam >> We have just bought a 256 meg dimm to boost our total ram up to 640 megs. >> There is a problem, the system goes reallly slow. We've tried just about >> everything, maxmem, iosiz, bouncebuffer, changing around the memory hole, >> and nothing works except not going over 512 megs in our system. The 256 >> dimm works fine, but if we go over 512 megs, it goes slow. Has anyone else >> experienced this before, or have any more ideas for us? > >Your motherboard/CPU combination is probably incapable of caching more >than 512MB of memory. > >-- >\\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >\\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >\\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message