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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:16:33 +0100
From:      "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>
To:        JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system?
Message-ID:  <b41c75520603150216u14ad295fh@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200603150601.26135.joao@matik.com.br>
References:  <200603140740.38388.joao@matik.com.br> <200603141914.54442.joao@matik.com.br> <20060315022800.GA47353@xor.obsecurity.org> <200603150601.26135.joao@matik.com.br>

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> SMP with single dual-core processors are randomly crashing when >2GB and =
<4GB
> on standard MBs
>  ...
> I understand here that amd64 is still not dealing well with dual-cores an=
d
> more than 2GB of RAM

I have two web-servers with 4 GB RAM, one with 4 single-core opterons,
the other with 2 dual-core. I have one db-server with 8 GB RAM with 2
dual-core, all working flawlessly. I have two web-servers with 4 GB
RAM and 2 single-core opterons.

I had problems related to RAM becoming corrupt with the server having
8 GB, swapping 4 GB of the exact same type of RAM-modules from another
server cured the server. The server that got the RAM-modules did not
excibit abnormal behaviour, ran it for hours with memtest
(www.memtest.org) without problems. So it very much depends on your
motherboard and type of ram etc.

Other than I don't recall I had any serious issues in that area except
for ata-drivers not being 4 GB clean. I even have some Dell dual
xeon's running amd64 and 4 GB RAM :-)

regards
Claus



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