Adding RAM
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 19:48:56 UTC 2006
On 13/10/06, Wei-Yee Chan <chanweiyee at gmail.com> wrote:
> The report looks fine to me. Is your system running slower than before,
> or is it just running slower than U expect it to be? A memory upgrade
> will not necessarily boost the speed of your system if U already had
> enough RAM before the upgrade. Utilised memory doesn't do anything to
> enhance your system speed.
I feel that it's been getting slower, like atrophy creeping in
somewhere. I've had XP, Fedora 3, 4, and 5, Suse 10, and [K]ubuntu on
this box, with various hard disks and memory upgrades 128MB -> 512MB
-> 1GB, and it's never been this sluggish. I can type faster than the
screen can pront them.
> If it's running slower than before the upgrade, then did U make any
> changes to your OS recently? Anything that U could remember?
I'm always installing and removing programs. The only ones done
recently were a bunch of F-Spot installations from CVS and the
installation and removal of a few different wine and winetools
versions.
> The last thing I can think up of is that your old AMD CPU cannot cope
> with the additional RAM, as it has too little internal cache. That
> could have caused the slowdown. Try removing 1 of the memory strips and
> see if there's a performance gain.
Too little internal cache makes the chip unable to handle large
amounts of RAM? That doesn't sound right to me. But I'm not a CS
major, so that actually might be the case. Can someone confirm this?
Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
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