tblader spake the following on 3/24/2007 6:46 AM:
Feizhou wrote:
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Right now, it's been running for about 40 minutes (the Java install loop mentioned previously) with the dram clocked down to ddr-533. All four sticks are in and I ssh'd in and started another java install loop over the wire just to aggravate things. If this continues to run for a few hours I'll call it good enough.
So all four sticks, clocked down and kernel parameters = A-OKAY (assuming it is stable)
Almost. Much to my dismay, the 4 stick testing went well but the BIOS screens occasionally hung during reboot through the course of the day. I finally just pulled the 4th stick and went home.
I've modified the rc3.d/S99local* script to just reboot every 10 minutes and compile a kernel and modules in between. I thought I'd heat things up a bit piping urandom into /dev/null as well.
I've got other fx-62 boxes running the same mainboard with all 4 ram slots full, but those are Corsair ram @1G each - the ram timings are different as well; 5-5-5-12 for the Corsair and 6-6-6-18 for the GSkill. Maybe the GSkill ram just isn't up to the task running Dual channel. I have the weekend to play with it so maybe I'll try two sticks in Dual Channel for a while and see what happens.
I'll post kernel compile times between the 3 sticks in single channel and 2 in dual channel :)
I bet the bios of the board is either not honoring the SPD settings of the memory, or the memory just isn't a good match for the board. I have had this problem before, and now I usually only buy memory that is on the recommended list of the manufacturer, especially on critical systems. It just isn't worth the extra trouble to maybe save a few bucks. Your time tracking down the problem probably has already gone over the difference in memory cost.