Re: Slllloooowwww Alpha

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Rob Byrnes wrote:

> It was brand new RAM, ordered from Crucial.  I had it replaced, but got the 
> same problems.  Checks like these *should* slow a machine down, 
> right?  Under FreeBSD, there is no noticable slowdown .... I'll try turning 
> logging on for the checks and see if I actually am getting them

It should, assuming that there's some attempt to handle the checks, IIRC
(been a long while since I looked at that bit of the code).

It may not have been the RAM, but that tends to be it in most cases.

> Debian Woody runs sweet on my PC64 though.

:-)

C