Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-22 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Vinny! Hehehe, With modern DIMM and SIMM parity RAM == ECC RAM. No need for pairs and no ECC is actually done on the memory module. Plain RAM is 64 bits wide these days. Parity/ECC RAM is 72 bits wide. The extra 8 bits are used by the RAM controller chip on the motherboard. Some really che

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-22 Thread Vinny
Forgive my ignorance on the subject but what difference would parity ram have made? Parity RAM forces you to buy ram in identical sets of 2 right? While I'm asking ecc has built in error checking, right? "Gary E. Miller" wrote: > > Yo Vinny! > > And of course this time you will remember to only

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-22 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Vinny! And of course this time you will remember to only by RAM with parity! RGDS GARY On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Vinny wrote: > Ding Ding > Yu win the prize! > memtest immediately reported that one of my 128M > dimms was bad. Taking it back to the store tommorow. > Thank you very much! > > "Ge

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-22 Thread Georg P. Israel
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Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-22 Thread Vinny
Ding Ding Yu win the prize! memtest immediately reported that one of my 128M dimms was bad. Taking it back to the store tommorow. Thank you very much! "Georg P. Israel" wrote: > > Vince, > > I'm pretty sure you have some bad memory modules in you machine. > Make a mem test e.g. memtest86 > to

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-21 Thread Cefiar
At 09:28 PM 21/04/00 +0200, bert hubert wrote: >- Forwarded message from Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > >Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:51:00 -0500 (CDT) >From: Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: VM: killing... >To: unlisted-recipients: ;(no To-header on input) >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-21 Thread Georg P. Israel
Vince, I'm pretty sure you have some bad memory modules in you machine. Make a mem test e.g. memtest86 to be sure that your memory is ok. Georg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-21 Thread Vincent Stoessel
I'm actaully getting bit by the VM killing (insert a random app here) bug. I only have the problem when I use 2.2.14smp + (linux mem=256) + software raid Very strange. I'm waiting for the kernel gods to eventually fix/discover the problem. My .02 My prevoius post to linux-kernel: Hello, I h

[gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]

2000-04-21 Thread bert hubert
- Forwarded message from Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:51:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VM: killing... To: unlisted-recipients: ;(no To-header on input) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting this problem on a stock RedHat 6.2 (