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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:06:27 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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To: jeff@AmeriCom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux SMP kernel bug with > 512M ram
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Works fine for me with up to 32Gb of RAM. Can you try a vaguely
current kernel?

Martin.

--On Friday, September 06, 2002 4:55 PM +0000 jeff@AmeriCom.com wrote:

> 
> I've been having problems with a few of our servers and I can't seem to find this 
> problem mentioned anywhere else. All of the dual processor machines will not operate 
> with greater than 512 megs of ram with the newer SMP kernels (2.4.7-10enterprise #1 
> SMP). Two of the dual P3 1ghz machines crash after a few minutes, when the memory 
> usage gets high enough, I presume. The errors they spit out vary, but its only when 
> I go over 512megs of ram, and only on dual processor machines. I had a slightly 
> different problem when I tried to set it up on a dual p2 266 machine, when I go over 
> 512 megs there, the system takes an hour to boot up, and everything crawls from 
> there. I asked a friend of mine to try this newer kernel with his dual processor 
> server, and he says the same thing (when I go over 512, it crashes). Has anybody had 
> this problem? Is there a fix?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeffrey Moss
> jeff@americom.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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