EDAC error

[Bill Davidsen]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:03 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 21:58 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
>>>> Brent Snow, Mr. wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>             I am having a problem with a new Dell PowerEdge 1900 Server
>>>>> running Fedora 8.
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>             The System setup is as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>             2 - Xeon  E5310 (Quad-Core 1.6 GHz) processors
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>             16 GB of RAM, I SATA 80 GB HDD. 
>>>>>
>>> Holy Smokes! 2 quad cores? That's 8 cores total(?) and 16 GIGS of Ram??
>>> My Gawd, not only am I jealous as all hell, I'm wondering what kinda
>>> kernel are you running?? Any sort of stock kernel would roll over and
>>> join the Choir Eternal. 
>> Actually fairly normal kernels work just fine on the large boxes, I have ran 
>> stock FC6 kernels up to 8 cpus/16 cores and up to 64GB of ram with no issues.
>>
>>> Wouldn't you be running some sort of mini clustering setup?? Setup
>>> right, it should really blow serious coal. Your problem might lie in
>>> that direction. You might have training wheels on a Dodge Hemi. With a
>>> machine like that, I could almost do without eating! 
>>> <huge drooling grins> Ric
>>>  
>> Clustering setups are only needed when you have more than 1 machine, having lots 
>> of cpus on a single machine is much easier than clustering as you don't need 
>> have to worry about the networking, and the memory can be shared easily between 
>> the cpus.
> 
> Huh, I wonder then why he's having problems. In the -OLD- days he'd be
> rolling a new kernel. Is the stock kernel multi-cpu aware or does he
> need a more specialized kernel, or is it the kernel at all?? That's
> where I would be looking, fer sure. God, I want one like he's got.
> <scratching strong itch> I always stay a couple of years behind. :) Ric
> 
I was under the impression that the motherboard I bought for dual core 
would support quad with a BIOS upgrade. It will, but the BIOS upgrade 
seems not to have been released, perhaps to improve sales of new boards. :=(

n any case, I have set aside enough funds to cover the new Intel quad 
core SMT chip due out 1Q09, and 4GB memory, and a reasonable 
motherboard. At that time I will be back to state of the art, and in the 
meantime I will nicely make do with what I have.

-- 
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