<div dir="ltr">This is actually a very normal thing to do with memory and is very reminiscent of the numa architecture. In this case, you have 2 memory controllers. Now, you can use the full bandwidth and only 1 memory controller at a time, or half the bandwidth but both at the same time. You can still reach across to the other memory, but there's a cost. To put it simply, the size of our hardware is outrunning our architecture and the hacks that have allowed large servers to handle this amount of resources is creeping into our consumer systems.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:36 AM, keith smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank">klsmith2020@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>Ganged = dual channel mode for ram. All cores get access to 100% of the ram.<br>
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unganged = single channel. Each core gets access to a stick of ram.<br><br>Is this correct?<br><br><br>------------------------<br>
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<br>From: Nathan England <<a href="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com" target="_blank">nathan@nmecs.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement<br>To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Yeah, it's a wonderful thing AMD calls "unganged" mode. I have 8 GB of ram in my server and the motherboard has enabled "unganged" mode to be more efficient. CentOS only recognizes 5.8 GB of ram and I cannot turn off unganged mode.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>Hi,<br><br>After that great thread on 32bit vs 64bit, I was wondering if it would be beneficial at this point to drill down to the CPU level : AMD vs Intel.<br>
<br>We had a great thread a while ago the AMD CPU, however I do not think that thread covered memory management.<br><br>I almost went for an AMD CPU this go around (I have a couple from prior purchases), however after hearing that AMD does some weird memory management at the core level, assigning memory by the bank to each core, I thought I would go with an Intel CPU.<br>
<br>If I understand this correctly, It sounds like under some or most circumstances the server will lose a portion of the total memory because under AMD RAM is assigned at the core level and bank level. I assume Intel uses memory as a pool. Need memory just grab some until it is gone. <br>
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