Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:36:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Mathezer <mathezer@newera.ab.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help. Adding memory broke my machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960322163537.281C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960322104613.3696K-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca>
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Stephen Mathezer wrote: > > I have a no name 486-66 VLB motherboard. It has 4 30 pin and 2 72 pin > slots for memory. Up to this point I've been happily running 2.1 release > with 16M of memory (4 30 pin simms). I recently got an additional 8M 72 pin > simm. The instructions for the board say that I can not have all 6 > memory slots filled but that 4 30 pin and 1 72 pin simm a supported > configuration. Indeed, Windows 95 works fine with the added memory, > however FreeBSD does not. I think I'd believe your motherboard manual. One or the other, but not both. > It actually performs much slower than with 16 M than with 24M or memory. > Plus as soon as I try to do anything in X and I presume anything more > intensive in general I get sig 10s and sig 11s all over the place. It had better be faster with 24MB. Big boost to the vm buffer cache. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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