Linux slowdown on 20M - summary (fwd)
Robert Glamm (glamm@mountains.ee.umn.edu)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 09:07:32 -0500 (CDT)
> [I'm now connected via cslip on 2400 modem, so sorry for bad formating/
> typos]
>
> I recently posted results of some tests - consisting of compilation of
> 2.1.35 kernel on 2.1.35 linux. Everything on 486DX2/80 with
> 20MB of ram.
>
> On 20MB of ram, it took 32 minutes (128k l2 enabled)
> on 16MB of ram (or with mem=16M option) it took
> 22 minutes (with l2 cache enabled).
[...]
Could it be interleaving effects or slower-speed memory modules making
up the other 4MB? I didn't see the posts on the original memory configuration
so I'm just kind of spitting into the wind here...
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