[suse-amd64] HDAMB 240s and 2.6.0
Anybody tried 2.6.0 yet?
-mcq I tried running 2.6.0 and it worked great under Suse 9.0 FTP editition except that I could not get the ethernet cards to work (Intel 10/100/1000 standard very common card or the Built in one on my HDAMB) so I guess I'm missing a patch or else I have to wait yet again for a BIOS update. If you do have a HDAMB I've found that to get Linux to work at all you do need the 1.05 BIOS but I was pleased to get Suse 9.0 over FTP for free I guess I can wait for 2.6.0 but I'd sure like it to work with my nics.
Also I tested my board with 2 sticks of pc 2700 registered and both processors and I got 3.5G per second memory bandwidth with A1 and B1 slots filled (for a total of 128 bit bandwidth) instead of 4.0G per second for a single processor which is ok and seems fast with 240s but I sure wish I had gotten the k8w for both channels of memory to each cpu and real NUMA. Also I haven't tried putting in 2 more Dimms because of cost and I hear that it wouldn't make much of a difference if at all and it might be slower even. Anyone else out there running this config. I've seen some people getting like over 4.0G per second between two processors but with high end and expensive opterons on the MSI and HDAMB type boards. Also I just saw a review of the quads that get 9G per second total its not 16G but still 9Gig isn't too shabby! Cheers Ben _________________________________________________________________ Its our best dial-up Internet access offer: 6 months @$9.95/month. Get it now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:51:22 -0600
"Benjamin Hamilton"
Anybody tried 2.6.0 yet?
-mcq I tried running 2.6.0 and it worked great under Suse 9.0 FTP editition except that I could not get the ethernet cards to work (Intel 10/100/1000 standard very common card or the Built in one on my HDAMB) so I guess I'm missing a patch or else I have to wait yet again for a BIOS update. If you
I have an HDAMB and the onboard Broadcom Ethernet chips works just fine with the standard tg3 driver in 2.6.* SuSE installs the bcm5700 driver by default, but that driver doesn't exist yet for 2.6. But tg3 should be fine and it is the better driver anyways. -Andi
I was curious about your memory bandwidth tests. What program do you use for this? I've been curious about what kind of memory throughput my system has. I'm using pc2700 too. Although they've relased a bios that supports pc3200. I have the HDAMA, which I believe has the same broadcom chip as the HDAMB, and the ethernet works fine with suse 9.0 installed from the DVD. Mark Benjamin Hamilton wrote:
Anybody tried 2.6.0 yet?
-mcq
I tried running 2.6.0 and it worked great under Suse 9.0 FTP editition except that I could not get the ethernet cards to work (Intel 10/100/1000 standard very common card or the Built in one on my HDAMB) so I guess I'm missing a patch or else I have to wait yet again for a BIOS update. If you do have a HDAMB I've found that to get Linux to work at all you do need the 1.05 BIOS but I was pleased to get Suse 9.0 over FTP for free I guess I can wait for 2.6.0 but I'd sure like it to work with my nics.
Also I tested my board with 2 sticks of pc 2700 registered and both processors and I got 3.5G per second memory bandwidth with A1 and B1 slots filled (for a total of 128 bit bandwidth) instead of 4.0G per second for a single processor which is ok and seems fast with 240s but I sure wish I had gotten the k8w for both channels of memory to each cpu and real NUMA. Also I haven't tried putting in 2 more Dimms because of cost and I hear that it wouldn't make much of a difference if at all and it might be slower even. Anyone else out there running this config. I've seen some people getting like over 4.0G per second between two processors but with high end and expensive opterons on the MSI and HDAMB type boards. Also I just saw a review of the quads that get 9G per second total its not 16G but still 9Gig isn't too shabby!
Cheers Ben
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:29:42 -0500
Mark Horton
I was curious about your memory bandwidth tests. What program do you use for this? I've been curious about what kind of memory throughput my system has.
You can use lmbench for that (ftp://ftp.bitmover.com/lmbench/) Or STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ -Andi
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