Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:10:27 -0500 (EST) From: Craig Huckabee <huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: rv@groa.uct.ac.za, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space Message-ID: <199610301610.LAA00804@mispwoso.nosc.mil> In-Reply-To: <199610301449.GAA02985@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Oct 30, 96 06:49:12 am"
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> > Joe Greco wrote (about the ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D): > > > I can't get anything more than 192MB to work reliably on this board > > > (6 x 32MB SIMM modules) - unless we go with the mega mondo $$$$ 64MB > > > SIMM's.. and even those I have doubts about. We put the 4 that we > > > have on a P/I-P55T2P4 board and it refused to work until we relaxed > > > the RAM timing to 70ns. Gives me a sick feeling. > > > > I am running 5 P55T2P4D boards with 256MB (4x64MB) and they > > are running fine (all RAM is being used by the OS). The memory > > is '1st grade RAM' (whatever that may be, although definately more > > expensive) and was specicially imported for these machines. > > But youv'e only half loaded the board, it has 8 simm sockets, try > even adding 2 more simms and watch what happens to your stability.... > > The crux is, we went to the T2P4D for the 8 simm sockets, and I have > yet to see one of these boards run correctly with even 8 single sided > 12 chip simm modules in it! > > ANYONE out there have one of these boards with 8 simms in it working? Yes. 512MB using 64MB SIMMs. Its running 2.1.5-STABLE and has been up for nearly a month. The only time it was down before that was a 'make world' to upgrade from -RELEASE to -STABLE, so in effect it has been running this way for a long time - no glitches. It runs our primary WWW server - see http://www-nise.nosc.mil. It also does some other tasks - I'm sending this email from here right now. :-) I took the advice I got from ASUS to buy quality RAM (they named Kingston or Viking) and bought 8 64MB SIMMs for ~$6700, which I'm sure isn't a rock bottom price. --Craig Huckabee huck@nosc.mil > > > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD >
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