Hi all,

On 6/23/05, Dmitri Pogosyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would be very interested to check if somebody could benchmark if this
> does not hurt the memory access performance.
> 

Well, the application I work with uses some memory (3.1Gigs of real in
use memory, 3.7 of effective "allocated memory) and I run two of those
on my dual-opteron with 8gigs of ram.

This app runs for 3 days, and each simulation lasts the same time has
before I changed the bios settings to make that software mem hole..

So.. at least on my case.. I don't see performance issues with this enable..

I can do some "stream" runs to check how it does... in this config..

Best regards,


> Celestica is quite adamant that it will (but it is out of opteron business,
> so its opinion may be old)
> 
> 
> > Miguel Filipe posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > excerpted below,  on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:50:55 +0100:
> >
> > > Just for the record, I'm not having the problem anymore.
> > > The BIOS had a option to go around the memory hole,  by software, or
> > > by hardware (only for rev ? cpus).. I chose by software.. and worked..
> > > now I have:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> free -m
> > >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > > Mem:          8037       8000         36          0          0       3625
> > > -/+ buffers/cache:       4375       3661
> > > Swap:        11452          0      11452
> >
> > Very good to read, not only for you, but because I'm looking to upgrade,
> > but haven't yet, and now I know it'll work properly when I do.
> >
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