Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/16/2010 02:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one mod

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Lisi put forth on 4/17/2010 10:04 AM: > Would I be correct in taking this to mean that the memory modules appear to > be incorrectly installed, and that I could improve my memory performance by > moving one of the modules that dual channel functions? And also, if that No, they are currently

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-17 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:35:45 Nick Boyce wrote: > On 17/04/2010 01:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Camaleón put forth on 4/16/2010 8:31 AM: > >> It can be worst, though. There are manufacturers that paint all the RAM > >> slots in black or using the same color and so forcing us to read the > >> m

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Nick Boyce put forth on 4/16/2010 11:35 PM: > My current rig - Abit NF7-S V2 mobo (Nforce 2 chipset) and Athlon XP CPU > - has 3 DIMM slots all the same fetching shade of blue. I initially > added two 256Mb sticks in slots 1 & 2, and got dual channel operation > (the BIOS reports it at boot time

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Nick Boyce
On 17/04/2010 01:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 4/16/2010 8:31 AM: > >> It can be worst, though. There are manufacturers that paint all the RAM >> slots in black or using the same color and so forcing us to read the >> manual >:-) > > The manufacturers have bastardized the col

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 4/16/2010 8:31 AM: > It can be worst, though. There are manufacturers that paint all the RAM > slots in black or using the same color and so forcing us to read the > manual >:-) The manufacturers have bastardized the color coding to the point it's useless; thus reading the

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/16/2010 02:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mo

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:06:54 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/16/2010 04:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) >> Now, go look at the DIMM socket colors and layout pattern on the Intel, >> Asus, and yes, other Gigabyte boards to see what the proper color >> coding for dual channel memory sockets

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 04:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 7:06 PM: Are you guys displaced Ubuntu users who landed on debian-user after a tornado came through Kansas? ;) I guess you've never seen "The Wizard of Oz". You made me dig my latest mobo's man

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 7:06 PM: >> Are you guys displaced Ubuntu users who landed on debian-user after a >> tornado came through Kansas? ;) I guess you've never seen "The Wizard of Oz". > You made me dig my latest mobo's manual :) [Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3], which > says plainly : "The

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 01:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that'

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 02:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Mo

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that'

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: > No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will > theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and > it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that's not correct. If the mobo DIMM slots are colored,

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 3:09 PM: > Hi, > > The Wiki on dual channel memory says: > > "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually > color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each > memory module access to the memory controller, increa

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:47:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 15:38, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> >> I always try to fill the RAM slots of the board at their maximum >> capacity (at least 2 GiB.) so upgrading memory will be worth for it. >> >> > That's a bit garbled... Did you forget a w

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 15:38, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I always try to fill the RAM slots of the board at their maximum capacity (at least 2 GiB.) so upgrading memory will be worth for it. That's a bit garbled... Did you forget a word somewhere? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:09:08 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The Wiki on dual channel memory says: > > "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually > color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each > memory module access to the memory controller, inc

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 11:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The Wiki on dual channel memory says: "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each memory module access to the memory controller, increasing throu

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Does that mean that placing 2 1GB modules, each into a different colored > slot, is faster than putting 1 2GB module into one slot and leaving the > other 3 slots empty? on my server board the machine will not even boot up if memory is no

Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, The Wiki on dual channel memory says: "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each memory module access to the memory controller, increasing throughput bandwidth." Does that mean that placing

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: memory question (hardware) >Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:27:07 -0400 > >>Latency, risk of failure, sure... also sheer design complexity >(since you have >

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:27:07 -0400 "Jeff Soules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jeff, > to solve the geometry of fitting more circuitry in the same space), True, but for memory that's easier than for, say, a CPU. Mainly because there's a *lot* of repetition in RAM chips. As a result, a fair b

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Original Message > >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> >Subject: RE: memory question (ha

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Jeff Soules
Any thing else? > > > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Original Message >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >S

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
t; > > > Original Message > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: RE: memory question (hardware) > >Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:08:10 -0400 > > > >>I am curious... > >> > >> > >>When m

RE: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-04 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: memory question (hardware) >Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:08:10 -0400 > >>I am curious... >> >> >>When memory is manufactured why does a stick of

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:14:01 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Paul, > Smaller die size means higher price. You're squeezing twice as many > circuits into the same real estate. As a result, failure rate will be higher too, since greater density leads to greater risk of error.

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 01:08 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 > times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different > to justify the cost? Smaller die size means higher price. You're squeezing twice as many circuits int

memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Mag Gam
I am curious... When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different to justify the cost?

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of 886MB, where the

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different >> a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of >> 886MB, where the 64-bit ve

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-13 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different > a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of > 886MB, where the 64-bit version says there is 1024MB. > I came across this recently when I upg

Memory Question

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just for kicks I surfed to http://www.goodbye-windows.com and downloaded the Debian installer for Windows. I already had Etch on this computer, but went ahead and ran the installer just to see what it would do. When I had installed Etch the first tim

Re: memory question

2001-07-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
I'm not very familiar with gtop, but top gives you the data right at the top of its output (if display of memory information is enabled). It tells you how much of your memory and swap is in use and how much is used in buffers and caching. You can also get all of this information (the Right Way) fr

Re: memory question

2001-07-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I've got 512MB of RAM, and I wanted to see how much of it is free. So I > ran gtop, which showed me that ~84MB are used (mainly X and apache-ssl). > OK so far, but cat /proc/meminfo tells me that ~480MB are in use, and > only 32MB fr

memory question

2001-07-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello List I've got 512MB of RAM, and I wanted to see how much of it is free. So I ran gtop, which showed me that ~84MB are used (mainly X and apache-ssl). OK so far, but cat /proc/meminfo tells me that ~480MB are in use, and only 32MB free. So, which of both is right, and who is eating that much

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > It did automatically detect until the last couple of kernels (progress?) > what you want is append="mem=160M" somewhere in lilo.conf Actually, the BIOS makers started changing the API again. Reverting to an older BIOS will make it work

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > So I've used > > mem=160 > > Am I missing something obvious? > Yes. The units i.e. mem=160M ahh. That did it. gee, if it won't run in 160 bytes of ram, the port to the 8051 is doomed :) thanks

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Green
It did automatically detect until the last couple of kernels (progress?) what you want is append="mem=160M" somewhere in lilo.conf Jeff "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it > in the archives. > > I *thought* that large memory was

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it > in the archives. > > I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my > system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) > > So

standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it in the archives. I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) So I've used mem=160 at lilo, but the kernel panics trying to cre

Re: Memory Question

2000-06-20 Thread ktb
Bill wrote: > > Hi all, > Can anyone tell me if there is a command that lets > you know how much memory is used and or left available. If > so what is it?? > > Regards and thanks in advance > Bill > "free" will do it for you. If you append it with "-m" (free -m) it will show megabytes

Memory Question

2000-06-20 Thread Bill
Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there is a command that lets you know how much memory is used and or left available. If so what is it?? Regards and thanks in advance Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The Mind is like a parachute;