RE: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?
Steven,
The system will be running Oracle 9i and though I'm not a DBA
from what I understand Oracle will use every little bit of RAM
you throw at it and still want more. Of course that's what I've
picked up from DBA'a talking on other lists, not from experience.
We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for the input.
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:43, Jones, Steven wrote:
> We run some machines with 12 gig and even 24 gig of ram in one, they have 12
> CPU's though. We tend not to use all the Ram, running out of CPU first as a
> rule hence me wondering if 16gig will see any gain.
>
> If your going to move to a new board Id suggest Itanium CPUs so you can
> addres the Ram efficiently. Dunno if the AMD CPUS can do 4 way CPUs yet, I
> would cloesly look at them for myself, dirt cheap and looking very fast. IBM
> have new stuff coming out using the AMD chip, have not looked at it yet.
>
> regards
>
> Steven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kourosh [mailto:debian@mindwaresystems.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:32 AM
> To: Jones, Steven
> Subject: RE: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?
>
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>
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