Re: memory upgrade

From: Marko Nurmenniemi (no.way_at_kolumbus.fi)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:12:05 +0200

Joe wrote:

> The reason asking is I heard stories of people upgrading thier memory and
> thier Linux box slowing to a crawl. They had to take out the memory to
> restore the performance. I wont have to repartion the swap size will I?
>
Only possible explanation for this is a major screw-up in buying the
wrong speed memory. If your processor is say on a 133 bus and a 66
memory is installed it either
a. does not work
b. slows the prosessor to the 66 bus speed, which means that it is
effectively UNDER-clocked.

I'm not avare of other reasons but naturally that does not mean that
there are none...

-M

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