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On 11 Feb 98 14:12:17 GMT, "Tristan Wibberley"
<tri### [at] compaq com> wrote:
>Be careful about upgrading RAM to more than 64Mb, I have heard (though I'm
>not sure that it is right) that to access RAM addressed over 64Mb, RAM
>swapping must occur, I'm a little surprised by this since in protected mode
>(I think, or is it real mode - one emulates the old, dumb memory
>addressing), 386+ can address upto 4Gb without problems. So it may be
>prudent to keep you RAM to 64Mb or less unless you need more to avoid
>swapping (you will need a very complex scene, or you will need to run the
>windows version of povray).
My understanding of the 64Mb problem was that some Intel chipsets
don't perform caching of RAM over 64Mb, which makes memory above the
64Mb mark significantly slower.
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