Not really, Dual channel mode means you can read and write to both Banks of memory at the same time (aka Ganged). Single Channel means you treat all ram as a single bank reading and writing to one and then the other. think Raid 0 vs JBOD if that helps.
I personally have had 0 issue with greater than 4 GB of ram in a machine with Linux and a 64 bit kernel. and i have worked with multiple distributions over the years back and forth.
the main difference between Intel and AMD i have seen since the core i series CPUs were released is that AMD still has wicked fast memory performance but Intel wins most everything else.
If you have multiple processors you will want to look for numa. This allows inter processor communication for ram access.
It should not matter if you are running ganged or unchanged your is should see all ram installed with the exception of the PCI/pcie/chip set nibbling 100 to 700mb for doing its thing in consumer chipsets.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:36 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
I found this in an on-line discussion:
Ganged = dual channel mode for ram. All cores get access to 100% of the ram.
unganged = single channel. Each core gets access to a stick of ram.
Is this correct?
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From: Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com>
Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
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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.
I love it...
</sarcasm>
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:46:19 keith smith wrote:
Hi,
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.
We had a great thread a while ago the AMD CPU, however I do not think that thread covered memory management.
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.
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.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks!
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