Re: [OT] XFree sluggish after RAM upgrade
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 20:02, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2003-05-12 18:07:02, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > After I swapped out 3x 256MB DIMMs for 512MB DIMMs, the GUI sub-system
> > is sometimes sluggish when switching between virtual desktops and when
> > opening windows.
>
> No, but I have heard about only certain size of memory being cachable
> (so it may be a limit imposed by the size of your cache or a bios
> setting).
I remember that because of the size of the cache, certain Pentium 1
boards wouldn't cache more than, say, 64MB RAM, but I thought that
was engineered away now.
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