Ooh! A hijack! The "3Gb barrier" was discussed at Dan's Data:
http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm I only skimmed the article, but it might shed some light on the issue. A On Wed, September 19, 2007 10:04, Carl Cerecke wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> >> >
