Hi Steve, What was the symptoms with > 3G memory? Did the crashes happen on boot up? Or randomly?
I ask because I have a machine here (dual-core Intel, 4GB mem) that has occasional hard freezes (all frozen. No kbd or even ping response). I thought it might be the nvidia driver (using the latest for the 8600GT card) and dual-core. And I can't use the nv driver because it won't do dual-head on this card. So I was in the unusual position of either having one-core (maxcpus=1 on kernel cmdline) and two heads, or two-cores and one head. However, last night, the machine froze with just the one CPU enabled, so it must be something else. Frustrating, because I'm running long-running processes overnight. Perhaps if I told the kernel that I only have 3 GB ram it might help? Any ideas? Cheers, Carl. On 19/09/2007, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:24:57 +1200 > Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following from the various updates and configuration changes made > > yesterday, ntp is now able to do it's job. I'm happy . . . > Whopee! I ended up with custom kernels, weird boot parameters and allsorts to > get mine working. In the end, I think it was a kernel update that fixed it. > Just a poor choice of motherboard I on my part I think. I still can't run > more than 3GB memory without crashing, and there are no bios updates > available ): > > Roger > > >
