While this is arguably a BIOS bug, Linux's failure to support PAT is the key failure here. Even then, we could handle this much better than we currently do by clipping memory size to the level covered by the MTRRs.
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- kernel performance is *very* slow with 8GB RAM on AMD64. 6GB is fine. kernel 2.6.22-8 x86_64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs