New Machine

[Kurt Wall]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 12:45, Net Llama! enlightened us thusly:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:

> >    I would use two 1 gig ram sticks or if avail on board 1 2gig stick,
> > mine is a Asus K8N-E delux with 3 gig max, I have 2 gig now
>
> They prolly did this because right now no OS is stable with 4 or more GB
> of RAM using a native 64bit OS with dual CPUs.  Its an unholy nightmare of
> kernel panics and IOMMU related lockups.  Until mobo vendors & the linux
> kernel clean up their act between BIOS & ACPI tables, doing 64bit SMP with
> 4+ GB RAM is nothing other than an experimental configuration.

Yup. I follow LKML at work and this particular combination (multiple CPUs,
64-bit OS, and high mem) is annoyingly unstable.

> I'm saying all this from first hand experience.  These days, about 25% of
> my work day is spent dealing with this mess.

Condolences. ;-)

Kurt