Adding RAM

[Tony Arnold]

Dotan,

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> So far as I can tell, the machine is recognizing all the RAM. Also,
> memtest86+ found no problems. The two 512 memory parts are identical,
> purchased together.
> 
> So what else can I check to see why my system is so slow?

Have you run top in a terminal window and does that give you a clue to
why the machine is slow? It shows memory and swap usage and will also
show any processes hogging the cpu.

Is the slowness accompanied by a lot of disk activity?

I believe you need to run the 686 kernel to recognise 1GB of memory. The
386, IIRC is limited to about 750MB, although I don't see why that
should make the system particularly slow.

Just some thoughts!

Regards,
Tony.
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