Re: more than 12G of RAM

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net 
> <mailto:garydale@torfree.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+
>     shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My
>     system runs fine, except for the thrashing, with 8G. It's one
>     application that causes the thrashing and Free shows the heavy
>     swap use when it's running. With 12G, the thrashing pretty much
>     stops.
>
>
> gary, you should check stan's suggestion and update your BIOS to 
> latest version...
It already is the latest version. I've reported the problem to Gigabyte. 
Hopefully they will have a fix but I suspect they will decide the bug in 
their BIOS is an "unsupported configuration".