Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 21:40:49 EST

"Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca> said:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bernard Wei wrote:
> >> Anyone else experience loss of interactivity and slowdowns on
> >> 2.2.14?

> >Yes, when I only using a fraction of my installed memory :c)

> >Make sure you are running with all your physical memory detected.
> >For a time I was running with only 1/4 of my physical memory. But
> >I have a total of 256MB, so it took me a long time to realize that
> >I didn't use the full 256MB.

> No, thats definitely not the problem either. I have 96Mb of RAM
> in my system - 64Mb of which is cached and 32Mb uncached.

Try booting with "mem=64m" and check that way then. Perhaps the memory
usage shifted so it is now using (more of) the uncached RAM? 

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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