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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 16:07:46 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Vijay Ramasubramanian <ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu>, Mike Grommet <mgrommet@insolwwb.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19981014160746.0105f178@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810132312140.24894-100000@shell.uniserve.c a>
References:  <3.0.3.32.19981014004150.0103ae24@207.227.119.2>

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At 11:15 PM 10/13/98 -0700, Tom wrote:
>  Or use parity SIMM/DIMM and then there is zero guess work.  Rather than
>a mysterious non-reproducable crash, you will get a parity failed panic.
>Everyone should use parity memory all the time.

True, but how many actually do install parity memory in their servers, let
alone workstations.  Had I waited one week longer for a 128MB DIMM, the
price dropped enough to where I would have paid the same for parity.  Not a
server, which should have parity, but paying 50% more for a workstation...

>  Just like any other FreeBSD app:  as much as is available.  Since the
>install does a lot of i/o most of memory will probably put to work as a
>disk cache.

Though so.


Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
jeff@mountin.net

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