FC 1 for Summit chipset and big mem

Shannon McMackin mcmackin at shentel.net
Thu Feb 26 02:38:39 UTC 2004


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:29:41 +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:24:53AM -0500, Shannon McMackin wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:25:30 +0800, Choo Zhi Min wrote:
>> > Does the stock FC1 install and run on:
>> > 
>> > 4. server with 8GB ram?  Assuming CPU and chipset are already supported by 
>> > FC1.
>>                                     There should be no issues supporting 4
>> or 8gb of RAM under FC1.
> 
> 8gb of RAM under FC1? But there is no bigmem kernel, that uses PAE, in
> FC1. Do you have to build your own kernel for this?
>  
> I suspect such a configuration would have had no testing at all.
> 
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I suspect there would be some customization involved to support 8gb RAM
under FC1.  Can anyone support or refute this statement?  I haven't had
the opportunity to try a configuration of this nature.  The 2gb DIMMs
required to get to 8gb are very expensive.

Shannon McMackin
mcmackin at shentel.net





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