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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD slower (@ to 3 times) with >16megs Date: 06 Mar 1994 19:27:06 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Mar6142706@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <2l4ghj$s5l@homea.ensta.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: rougeau@bsd7.ensta.fr's message of 3 Mar 1994 11:09:39 GMT In article <2l4ghj$s5l@homea.ensta.fr> rougeau@bsd7.ensta.fr (Patrick Rougeau) writes: I am experiencing a strange behavior of NetBSD0.9 and current while running some benchmark programms when I use 32 megs of Memory instead of 16 , i am getting the same result or 2 to 3 times the initial time(unconsistently) Some motherboards appear to not cache memory above 16MB. You should consult your documentation and/or call your vendor to find out if there's any way to convince it to; regardless, it's a hardware problem and not a software problem. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.