Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:12:52 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system Message-ID: <201109040512.XAA29689@lariat.net>
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Have been doing more experimentation regarding this problem. It doesn't occur with a 1 GB memory module in the machine, nor with a 2 GB module -- only a 4 GB module. This makes me wonder if there's some sort of memory bank switching or extended addressing mechanism here (like PAE). Perhaps it's causing some sort of interrupt every time a certain area of memory (perhaps the topmost portion) is accessed? I'd like to experiment with having FreeBSD try to use less than the full 4 GB (e.g., to make it act as if memory ended at, say, 3 GB) but I'm not sure how to tell the kernel to do that. --Brett Glass
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