Billy Davis wrote: > We had this same problem 18 months ago with RHEL 3. Turns out it was a > memory problem. As long as we ran with 512MB, everything ran fast and > fine. But, when we increased the memory to 1GB and higher, something > happened to slow the system to aan unbelievable crawl. Seems like there > was a bios upgrade from Intel that fixed the problem. > > Bdavis > That sounds like a version of this problem: (from memory.txt in the kernel docs...) 3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your motherboard. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
