2009/11/30 <tho...@equinox.homelinux.org>: > Hi all, > > this some kind of Off-Topic since it has nothing to do with LFS at all. I > send this to this list because I know that there are quite a lot geeks and > experienced people out there who may have a hint for me. > > Have you ever seen a machine which has too much RAM installed? We have a > brand new HP (DL380G6) server here with 48G RAM installed. It has an p410i > and a p800 SAS controller connected to a MSA70 with 1TB usable disk space. > There are 2 Quad-Core-Xeon (X5560) with hyperthreading (a total of 16 CPUs). > Actually, I _have_ seen a machine with too much RAM installed, but I can't remember the details. What I do remember is that wih a bit too much RAM (but still a common desktop amount) it wasn't all cached.
This is a 32-bit kernel ? If so, I'll guess it's a problem creating buffers (Bruce replied ... maybe HIGHMEM64G will fix it for you) and you *really* should be using a 64-bit kernel (I suspect you might also benefit from 64-bit userspace, but who knows). vmstat might be useful (no, I don't know any details about how best to use it). The MagicSysRQ key might perhaps show what is going on, but that is probably not available in an enterprise kernel. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
