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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:36:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephen Mathezer <mathezer@newera.ab.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help. Adding memory broke my machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960322163537.281C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960322104613.3696K-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca>

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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Stephen Mathezer wrote:

> 
> I have a no name 486-66 VLB motherboard.  It has 4 30 pin and 2 72 pin 
> slots for memory.  Up to this point I've been happily running 2.1 release 
> with 16M of memory (4 30 pin simms).  I recently got an additional 8M 72 pin
> simm.  The instructions for the board say that I can not have all 6 
> memory slots filled but that 4 30 pin and 1 72 pin simm a supported 
> configuration.  Indeed, Windows 95 works fine with the added memory, 
> however FreeBSD does not.

I think I'd believe your motherboard manual.  One or the other, but not both.

> It actually performs much slower than with 16 M than with 24M or memory.  
> Plus as soon as I try to do anything in X and I presume anything more 
> intensive in general I get sig 10s and sig 11s all over the place.

It had better be faster with 24MB.  Big boost to the vm buffer cache.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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