slow last 128MB of RAM in a 2GB system?

[Paul Lussier]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:46, Thomas Charron wrote:
>
>>  Obvious question, but are you sure there isn't a problem with the
>> physical memory in the last 128 megs?
>
> Ah, good question, I should have mentioned I ran memtestx86 on it.
> Also, no crashiness, just god-awful-slowness running with the whole
> RAM region enabled.

I would move up to memtest86plus.  memtest86 is rather old and doesn't
test a lot of things in newer memory (I forget what, but the webpage
explains far better than I ever could).  We switched over to using
that and began finding lots of problematic memory that memtest86
passed on.

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Seeya,
Paul