I would expect the problem might also be with some server (ie.; "named", "ypbind" "routed") looking for something on a network that is mis-configured, then timing out and working as if it did not need that deamon (since really it did not need that service running and the misconfigureationjust caused it to search for a server not running or a address not on the network?.
On Saturday 01 December 2001 15:32, you wrote: > > You people with older motherboards and lotsa RAM needs to do a little > > investigating before complaining about how long anything takes to do. > > The amount of cache RAM can affect performance in a very big way. My VIA > > Not only that, but complaining about how long it takes to boot (how often > do you boot anyway? The last time I rebooted was about 6 months ago, and > my box rebooted itself because of a power glitch, and I decided to upgrade > to 8.1 then too). And complaining about how long programs take to start up > isn't really a good measure of performance. > > > MVP3 motherboard has 1024K of cache, which is sufficient only for 256 Mb > > of RAM. Benchmarks running 512 Mb are roughly 40% worse than when > > That can be an issue. Newer systems (athlon) have the cache on the chip > anyway - mine's an Athlon with 128k or so of on-chip cache and I don't > know if there is any level-2 cache although I suspect there is. It's an > ASUS A7V 133 board, with 256 megs of RAM. > > From what I've read, linux does slow down if there isn't sufficient > cache, because parts of the memory are left uncached - and I'm not sure > why this is - I figure the kernel should be loaded towards the bottom of > memory (in a cached region, naturally) and not somewhere where the RAM > isn't cached. Thus, the system need only suffer slowdowns when your > resident set of processes are larger than the amount of RAM that can be > cached. However, it doesn't appear this is the case -- unless more recent > kernels have made this a moot point. > > Secondly, I think the issue is related to not having enough cache tag bits > rather than the amount of cache.
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