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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
