Linux on old laptop - memory

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 10:59:00 EDT 2006


On 6/7/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> The Toshiba P150 I had could only cache 64MB of RAM in the CPU.  If you had
> more, none of it was cached.  However, 80MB, even w/o the cacheing was still
> better then 64MB.  I think the cache issue is a P150 thing.

  It's actually the chipset (northbridge).  Various Intel chipsets
have had various limits on how much RAM they could cache.

-- Ben



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