Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:58:51 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird ram problem Message-ID: <199604272258.PAA03187@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:47:29 EDT." <Pine.SCO.3.91.960427174422.21300A-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>
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> >I kept experiencing crashes on my acer pentium 133 running 2.05R and INN >1.3. I thought it was one of my 32 MB simms so I replaced them - same >problem. > >So then I thought, maybe because I had 2 16's and 2 32's that that might >be a problem, so I loaded it entirely with 32 mb simms for a total of 128MB > >This really freaked it out. With in a few minutes, simple commands like >pwd, or cd etc would bomb me out of the shell. I got illegal >instruction, bus error, and other error messages. > >I pulled the 32's and put in 4 16's and everything is calm and happy >again (but slow cause I really need more ram than 64MB). > >Anyone got any ideas as to why this freaks out at over 64MB? You might have too many chips on the SIMMs resulting in too much load. Triton based motherboards seem to be especially suseptible to this. I think the limit is 24 chips/SIMM, but Rod could tell you better than I can. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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