Re: Low memory machines

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:13:31 -0400

Well you may be barely using 16 MB of memory on each system. Besides a
486DX4-133 was comparable to a Pentium 75 ONLY when using Win95 or less.
When running a pure 32 bit OS any Pentium puts a 486 to shame. Plus add in
64 bit bus compared to a 32 bit one, 50Mhz access to memory and cache as
compared to 33Mhz. PCI vs VLB. Maybe even EDO vs FPM DRAM. And perhaps
mode 4 EIDE vs old IDE. Its not surprising you P75 is faster.

-----Original Message-----
From: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 10:20 AM
Subject: Low memory machines

>Hi guys,
>
>At home I have a VLB i486DX/100 with 32MB of memory running 2.1.108 and
>26MB of swap file. I recently installed my own brand of Linux 2.1.107 on
>my machine at work (secretly), and it is a PCI Pentium 75 with 16MB of
>RAM, with a 128MB swap file.
>
>The odd thing is that the P75 even with 16MB is faster than my i486DX/100
>with 32MB. Why? I'd have expected the P75 to be a lot slower due to the
>size of the memory!
>
>Cheers,
>Alex.
>
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>
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