AMD vs Intel memory managemement

Bryan O'Neal Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
Wed Jun 12 18:13:24 MST 2013


Dell makes servers that go that high ;)
24x32GB


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:

> Yes - I am not saying my entire farm has that much ram. You can get away
> with much, much less, but I have servers that go that high.
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> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>>
>> Did I read that right you have 768GB of RAM?
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>> Keith Smith
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>> --- On *Wed, 6/12/13, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
>> >* wrote:
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>> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>
>> Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 5:45 PM
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>>
>> This is kinda new to me - Just so I am clear - unganged systems would
>> perform better if I have say - a caching system with limited threads each
>> pined to a specific core (we do this for processor cache anyway) while
>> ganged systems would perform better it I was spinning up a new thread for
>> each request and had a large amount (say 768GB) of ram running something
>> like PostgreSQL where threads are being fired up and down many thousands of
>> times a second but the data they seek is mostly in main memory.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> On-board bios usually will not allocate that much however. And by usually
>> will not I mean I have never sen it do so, even in the days of ghetto ram
>> thieving by graphics chip-sets.
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>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net<http://mc/compose?to=ejs@shubes.net>
>> > wrote:
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>> On 06/03/2013 01:46 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>>
>> But why does CentOS not register all of my memory? Why less than 3/4 of
>> it?
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>>
>> Perhaps the bios has allocated a chunk of it to onboard video?
>>
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