[K12OSN] dual Xeon and FC1

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:18, Shawn Powers wrote:

> Yeah... I did the same thing, but 4 servers with 6GB each.  Apparently, 
> the bigmem kernel (required for 32 bit motherboards with over 4GB of 
> RAM) causes some instability.

Hmmm:
# uname -a
Linux web11.futuresource.com 2.4.20-9bigmem #1 SMP Wed Apr 2 13:15:31
EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

# uptime
 17:21:44  up 430 days,  4:58,  2 users,  load average: 0.71, 0.78, 0.67

Another one running 2.4.20-19.9bigmem is at 325 days.

I haven't seen any problems with bigmem kernels.  That's the oldest
dual-xeon I've got and it's still running RH9.  Several newer ones
are doing as well with FC1 - haven't put FC2 on anything with more
than 4 gigs yet.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com