Re: News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Jack Holt
If you are using a pentium motherboard that has the VX, TX, or anything but the HX chipset, you can slow down your computer by as much as 5% by putting in more than 64 Mb of RAM, since VX and TX can only cache upto 64 Mb. Ths solution, either get a HX board or a board with VIA chipset. Sorry f

Re: News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Ke Huang
If you are using a pentium motherboard that has the VX, TX, or anything but the HX chipset, you can slow down your computer by as much as 5% by putting in more than 64 Mb of RAM, since VX and TX can only cache upto 64 Mb. Ths solution, either get a HX board or a board with VIA chipset. Sorry f

News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Daniel Laffin
I guess this is question night. I added an addtional 64 megs of RAM to my news server making it 128 total. I also put in another 256K cache to total 512K. Now the load is on average twice as high? I dont follow that at all. -Dan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u