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Re: Physical memory



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On Friday 27 September 2002 15:14, Yildiz, Murat wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have the following configuration :
> tyan motherboard,
> 4x 512Mb ram
> 2x1000Mhz PIII
> ICP Raid Controller with raid5 configuration
> Debian Woody 3.0 with kernel 2.4.19 SMP #1
>
> The problem is quite simple(actually difficult to solve) if I have
> only 3x512Mb ram(1,5 Gb) I have no problems with creating a single
> 150 Gbyte file, but if I have 4x512Mb ram (2Gb) I even cannot create
> a single 20 Gbyte file, it crashes with an oops pointing to a
> kjournald error and sometimes the system freezes...I tried lots of
> variants (different kernel, 1 cpu ,event different distros etc.) no
> success with 2Gbyte ram (I have 4 G kernel memory support)
>
> What could be the possible reasons...thanks...

Whet RAM are you using? Registered? There might be timing problems with 
4 memory sticks on the board. Perhaps have a look if you can make some 
settings in the BIOS that use a somewhat slower timing. Slowing down 
the memory clock might even help.

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