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From: mhorstm@swbatl.swbt.com (Mark Horstman 5-3417)
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Subject: Re: Sparcstations using 16M or more under SunOS
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Date: 8 May 90 20:22:15 GMT
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In article <7463@brazos.Rice.edu> gordoni@chook.ua.oz.au (Gordon Irlam) writes:
>SunOS tends to have problems
>handling anything more than around 16M on a Sparcstation as described
>below.
>
>The problem we encounter is that with this much memory a very large number
>of address translations faults are occurring, up to 3000 per second, and
>with each fault taking around 300ms to handle this means that around 90%
>of the total CPU time is spent in system mode handling these faults.

Is this true?  I was planning on purchasing 4 4MB SIMMS to extend the
standard memory (8 1MB SIMMS) that came with my SS1.

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