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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:19:51 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.2GHz with 8GB RAM
Message-ID:  <20041029031951.GA13963@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041028101119.02b18950@202.179.0.80>
References:  <6.1.2.0.2.20041027095212.02b38560@202.179.0.80> <20041027024512.GA54432@dragon.nuxi.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041027111122.02b3cc20@202.179.0.80> <20041027165534.GA73113@dragon.nuxi.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041028101119.02b18950@202.179.0.80>

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:18:11AM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> >> >An IBM e325 has only 6 DIMM slots, specifically what RAM configuration
> >> >are you using?  Do you have ECC turned on?  Are using DRAM scrubbing?
> >> >What is your BIOS memory interleaving settings?
> >>
> >> I have 2GB x 4 = 8GB RAM and ECC is turned on and I have following
> >> settings in BIOS:
> >
> >By chance, have you tried both with 4GB per CPU and with all 8GB on one
> >CPU?  Did it make a difference?
> 
> You mean kernel compiled without SMP options?

No.  You have 6 DIMM slots and 4 DIMM's.  So there are two ways to
install the memory -- CPU0 gets all 4 DIMM's; or CPU0 gets 2 DIMM's and
CPU1 gets 2 DIMM's.


> >> 4GB Memory Hole adjust  -> AUTO
> >
> >I would turn this off (disable).
> 
> This has only 2 options, AUTO and Manual. If I select Manual, I have to 
> adjust 4GB memory hole size, which
> has 64mb, 128mb, 256mb, 512mb, 1gb options. What should I choose?

Go with AUTO then.  You don't want anything special happening.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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