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Re: pushing the limit



Hi,

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Martin Herweg wrote:

> how many MB are 4GB ?

4x 1024 I would have thought?

> today I tried some more mem=  values:
> 
> The Bios says it has 4034MB RAM
> so i tried mem=4034M which resulted in a slow server again,
> but        mem=4030M works fine.
> 
> mem=4030M	without mem=
> - ---------	------------
> free	
> 4074228		4079472
> 
> free -m 
> 3978		3983

This is strange.  Have you run memtest?  Without doing the above you might
try removing each ram stick in turn and seeing does the use of one stick
(or even one slot) cause the problem.  

Are you using swap?  How much?  Which kernel is this?

Gavin



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