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14th March 2005, 11:54 PM
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FC3 512mb ram faster than 1 gig wtf???
Hey guys I had problems getting FC3 installed on my laptop, then to get it to run stably, then to get it to run fast. Well I found the problem, FC3 doesnt like 1 gig of ram, 10-20 minutes to boot and ultra slow in OS!!!
On a tip from a friend I removed 1 stick of ram now at 512mb and it runs flawless and ultrafast!!!
So wtf??? can someone tell me wtf is going on here and how to solve it so that I can use all my ram please!
PS I experienced this problem with SUSE 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1 but even worse, removing the ram I can get all three to boot in less than 2 minutes, with all ram in it takes Mandrake and SUSE and hour to boot!!!! but Id like to get this problem solved so that I can at least use FC3! thx
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15th March 2005, 01:24 AM
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The things that come to mind is that either the ram is bad, mismatched somehow or your laptop does not support 1gig. Since you've tried three different distros with the same results, it probably isn't the fault of linux. Just for fun, check the specs on your motherboard and also go over to a friend's house and play with your ram on his machine; cross-matching with his ram.... then when he isn't looking swipe the good stuff!
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15th March 2005, 02:57 PM
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yes, try to switch the rams, use the one you have pick out to see what happen, if nothing is wrong it might be a compatibility problem otherwise, if it is slow like it was with 1Gb, your ram may be faulty
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15th March 2005, 05:12 PM
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Ok guys, I have a matched pair of performance low-latency ram(Geil Golden Dragon DDR400), Windows XP runs flawless w/ 1 gig even a 3.x version of Knoppix runs fine, ITS NOT THE RAM.
I noticed this issue is even effected from install, what use to take me 1/2 to 2 or 3 hours for clean installs of these distros now they can all be installed about 15 minutes each.
Something else is going on here-
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15th March 2005, 06:18 PM
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Got me scratching! How big is your swap file?
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16th March 2005, 02:48 AM
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Yeah, it's something else, so let's focus on the Linux side. That means it's time to throw the "may sound dumb, but I gotta ask" questions into the mix. Did you boot Knoppix with the 2.6 kernel?
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26th March 2005, 11:48 AM
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update...
turns out its himem thats causing the kernel to bog down
i recompiled w/o himem and it runs fine, albeit missing about 10% of my ram
next Im gunna try the 1gig lomem patch and see how it fares
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