Re: Dual XEON - >>SLOW<< on SMP

From: Dr. David Gilbert (dg@px.uk.com)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 12:39:03 EST


On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> yes, that someone was me :) It did indeed help to my 4way 6G RAM Xeon --
> the performance improved 40x!. Also, using David's mtrr.patch helped with
> the problem of eepro100 interfaces sometimes not coming up properly (and
> generally, it is nice to see all your 6G appear in /proc/mtrr).
>
> So, here is David's mtrr patch. Although in his case ("only" 4G) it
> shouldn't be needed.... it is for 36bit MTRRs I assume.

Thanks! That patch did the trick - our machine is now running lovely.

Thanks again,

Dave

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