RE: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

[Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>]

Steven,

Thanks for the reply.  Will try these out and I suggested moving
to a quad-proc system.  That may very well end up being the best
bet anyway =)

Will continue playing.

Thanks,

Kourosh

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:26, Jones, Steven wrote:
> Some ideas we threw rounf the office,
> 
> page size increase?  4 meg pages? turn off virtual memory?
> 
> Isnt this a little light on CPU's if your considering 16 Gig of ram? (yes I
> know its cheap)
> 
> regards
> 
> Thing
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kourosh [mailto:debian@mindwaresystems.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:10 AM
> To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone been able to get a Linux system, preferably Debian Woody, to
> run stably with 16GB RAM?  I have someone who has a Dual Xeon proc
> system with 8GM RAM (8 x 1GB ECC registered) running Debian Woody and
> Oracle 9i with no problems.  They would very much like to up this to
> 16GB (8 x 2GB ECC registered) but so far it crashes after 48 hours.
> 
> I have had one person tell me that they have a quad proc machine with
> 16G RAM running fine with a self-compiled kernel.org 2.4.18 kernel, but
> we can't seem to get one working.  We've enable HIGHMEM with and without
> HIGHMEM I/O but still no good.  Any other positive reports with
> dual-proc machines and 16GB RAM?  Patches, compiler settings, etc?
> 
> M's to FR?  Enlightening web sites or other docs?
> 
> The memory and other subsystems have worked fine in other tests so those
> don't seem to be a problem.
> 
> Regards.
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Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>