Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 10:38:51 EST


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:24:19PM +0100, Per Buer wrote:
> I have an Supermicro Superserver (wow!) 8040 or 8060 with a two Intel
> Xeon (p3-based with 1MB cache) and a Mylex AcceleRAID 352. We recently
> upgraded from 2 to 4GB of memory.
> There seems to a problem with IO and high memory. Suddenly IO
> performance will degrade dramatically (throughput of about 50KB/s).
> Booting the machine with "mem=2048" remedies this.
> We have tried replacing the memory with another make - no luck.
> Any hints?

Could you send out a dmesg and a config file?


-- wli
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