Not MTRR !? was: ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2

Robert Suetterlin (sutter@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de)
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:00:55 +0200


Hello everyone.

As far as I can see almost all memory is set write-back. The memory at the far end belongs to some hardware, see /proc/iomem below.

Are there any other suggestions why our machine is so slow, or perhaps 'write-back' is the reason??? If You need more info, please tell me, I will gladly provide it. Or if I can make any tests / benchmarks, ask for it.

Sincerely,

Robert S.

/proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0xfc000000 (4032MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=8192MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x200000000 (8192MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x300000000 (12288MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0x380000000 (14336MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg06: base=0x3c0000000 (15360MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg07: base=0x3e0000000 (15872MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1

/proc/iomem
00000000-0009e3ff : System RAM
0009e400-0009ffff : reserved
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000c8000-000c8fff : Extension ROM
000c9000-000cdbff : Extension ROM
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-fafeffff : System RAM
00100000-00246b38 : Kernel code
00246b39-002a8f9f : Kernel data
faff0000-fafffbff : ACPI Tables
fafffc00-faffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
fb000000-fbffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC]
fc000000-fc0fffff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
fc100000-fc100fff : Adaptec AIC-7880U
fc101000-fc101fff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
fc102000-fc102fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC]
fc103000-fc103fff : PCI device 1166:0220 (ServerWorks)
fc400000-fc400fff : Adaptec 7899P
fc401000-fc401fff : Adaptec 7899P (#2)
fc402000-fc4020ff : Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller
fc800000-fc81ffff : Intel Corporation 82542 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
fc820000-fc8200ff : Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (#2)
fcc00000-fcc03fff : PCI device 1119:016d (ICP Vortex Computersysteme GmbH)
fec00000-fec0ffff : reserved
fee00000-fee00fff : reserved
ffc00000-ffffffff : reserved

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