Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-25 Thread stormjumper
an on physical media. hope this explanation helps. any errors pls correct me. - Original Message - From: "Martin L. Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 04:54 Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a litt

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 > > than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? > >Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa > lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unles

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:45 pm, Martin L. Johansen wrote: > > > Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig > > > of RAM ? > > > > Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB > > But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 > than 1024 ? Or does a person just

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:16 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? > > > >Yes, but the performance will be better than using all > > 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? > >Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. > The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a > performance hit. Tom, I added mem=86

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of > > > RAM ? > > > > Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB > > I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -nev

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of > > RAM ? > > Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: > > On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? > > > > > >Yes, but the performance will be better

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? > > > >Yes, but the performance will be better than using all > > 1024MB's. The memory management needed to add

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? > >Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. > The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a > performance hit. Does that mean I'm

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:41 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > > > You'll need to > > > > do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line > > > > for the kernel you're usin. > > Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better t

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram > > > capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. > > > > I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? > > You don't mention versions. 9.2 should hav

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not > > familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or > > bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar > with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. > Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) > settings. > > > Memtest gave me erro

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:06 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > Tom/List, > > I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I > can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and > stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and > tested. Barefoot o

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-21 Thread Terence J. Golightly
Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick individu