Re: scalablility problem

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:00:30PM -0600, Guido Neitzer wrote:
>On 30.03.2007, at 19:18, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>2.  There are known issues with the combination of Xeon processors and
>>PAE memory addressing; that sort of hardware tends to be *way* less
>>speedy than the specs would suggest.
>
>That is not true as the current series of processors (Woodcrest and
>the like) are also called Xeon. You probably mean the Pentium IV era
>Xeons.

Well, the newer ones can address large amounts of memory directly,
without using PAE, but the original comment was correct--PAE is slow
regardless of what processor implements it.

Mike Stone