From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:18:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46682FED.2080506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4527be0706061541ifd49a8fg60442532d72f1d06@mail.gmail.com>
Andrew Lyon wrote:
>
> Could this also cause a system to be unstable? my abit athlon64 at
> work will not run x64 with more than 1gb ram, and i have a colo server
> with supermicro & 2 x dual core xeons that will not run with more than
> 2gb.
>
> Both systems have long uptimes but if i add ram they crash within
> minutes of booting.
>
That's much more likely to be caused by bad memory bus layout so that it
doesn't handle the higher loading.
Run memtest86+ on the expanded memory for some time.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 12:12 [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up Bodo Eggert
2007-06-06 14:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-06 21:55 ` Wakko Warner
2007-06-06 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-06 22:41 ` Andrew Lyon
2007-06-07 16:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-07 17:37 ` Andrew Lyon
2007-06-09 0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-09 20:38 ` Matt Keenan
2007-06-07 13:49 ` Tom Moore
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2007-06-07 0:09 ` Robert Hancock
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