SLES 8 & TYAN 2880 greater than 4GB
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone had any success running SLES 8 (2.4.21-127-smp. or anything, for that matter) on the Tyan 2880 motherboard with > 4GB of RAM. We've tried: - - all 3 banks (2x) 1GB modules (6GB total). - - 1 cpu1 bank + 1 cpu2 back full (4GB total). They seem to run, but after a while I get memory errors, most often with the file cache, thus corrupting out mysql database, data in the corrupted cache is different from what's on the disk. We've been running with 4GB (4x 1GB modules) all in the CPU1 slots. and it's been fine for months now. But we're starting to starve for more RAM. Does anyone know of an alternate solution to this? Any recommendations for other motherboards that run stable with 6GB or more? The more RAM it can handle the better. I was told it was a design flaw in the Tyan 2880 board(unfixable by BIOS?). Anyone try the Tyan 2881 yet? Kris. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAE2SsuBLfyXibQuYRArc4AKCGvsg1Jt5v0M8ZPLxOyvpxmUuRPACgtGYa br7Be4YQyj3CvoT8llSFYrg= =X4Oz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:39:41 -0800 Kris Ongbongan <kris@vfrogs.com> wrote:
But we're starting to starve for more RAM.
The latest SuSE 9.0 update kernel has a fix that may increase stability on Tyan boards together with the latest BIOS and lots of RAM. Give it a try. That kernel is not officially released for SLES8 yet, but you should be able to install the 9.0 kernel rpm on SLES8 too (with rpm --nodeps)
Does anyone know of an alternate solution to this?
If it still doesn't work I would suggest trying other boards. Buy the RAM with the motherboard together and ask the vendor for a guarantee that it runs with 6GB or 8GB or whatever you need and make sure you can return it when it doesn't work. There are certainly boards/dimm combinations around that work. -Andi
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