Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262532AbUJ0Vtz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:49:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262942AbUJ0VtM (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:49:12 -0400 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:19918 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262532AbUJ0VnQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:43:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:43:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Jesper Juhl cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Dual Opteron box, what's the optimal memory placement for the CPUs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1543 Lines: 42 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Quick question, > > I've got an IBM eServer 325 here with 2 Opteron 240 CPUs. The box has 6 > DIMM slots, 4 for the "primary" CPU and 2 for the second one. I've got the > following memory sticks : 4x512MB and 2x1GB > > My plan is to plug the 4 512MB sticks into the slots for the first CPU and > the 2GB sticks into the two slots for the second CPU, giving them 2GB > each, but I could also give the first one 2x512MB and 2x1GB and the second > one 2x512MB giving the first CPU 3GB and the second 1GB. Does it matter at > all. doesn't really matter, they just have to be installed in pairs for bank interleaving. node interleaving is dependant on having banks on both cpu's populated. > and if it does, what's the optimal configuration? > > -- > Jesper Juhl > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/