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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!kanefsky
- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: memory and IIci speed (again)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.183436.3565@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <1992Nov18.163712.3263@nic.csu.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:34:36 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov18.163712.3263@nic.csu.net> marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo) writes:
- >Hi all,
- >
- > Ok, I've seen it before, I even understood it once, but with the advent of
- >the not-as-fast-as-it-should-be IIvx people have been talking about the IIci
- >and the effect its memory has on its speed.
- > What's the deal with that again?
- > Something about if you run with 5 megs there's only 1 meg in bank A you can
- >set your RAM cashe to something and thing will be faster. But, if you have 8
- >megs the ci might be slower 'cause there's 4 megs in bank A. If you have a
- >video card installed then blaa blaa blaa ad nauseum.
- >
- > Could somebody email me with a rundown of the problem/its fixes/and things
- >to avoid?
-
-
- The IIci's built-in video shares Bank A of RAM with the operating
- system. Thus, if you're running the built-in video, operating
- system access to Bank A has to compete with the video subsystem, and
- is considerably slower than access to Bank B. Additionally, Bank A
- is used *before* Bank B, so the first applications you run get
- loaded into Bank A until it fills up, and only then is Bank B used
- (turning virtual memory on confuses things somewhat, so you can't
- tell what gets loaded where). Hence, if you have lots of RAM in
- Bank A, most of your apps will load there and you'll take a
- performance hit. It's best to leave four 256K SIMMs in Bank A and
- replace the four 1MB SIMMs in Bank B with 4MB SIMMs, rather than put
- 1MB SIMMs in Bank A. If you buy a video card and don't use the
- built-in video, this problem goes away.
-
- --
- Steve Kanefsky
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