From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 16:40:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA16070 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:40:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16059 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00308; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:36:38 -0800 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:36:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Stephen Mathezer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help. Adding memory broke my machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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