[Info-vax] Alpha Personal Workstation question

[Mazzini Alessandro]

Thanks for the extra infos.

Yep, put that way is a bit strange the self imposed limit to 2gb... unless 
the idea was : when the client feels the need of more ram, he'll buy a more 
expensive box from us.

"Michael Kraemer" <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:k01d08$rjf$1 at solani.org...
> Mazzini Alessandro schrieb:
>> Again, thanks for the trouble of checking.
>>
>> According to a person I was discussing this with, he said that there were 
>> a bit of cases he experienced ( read a lot ) where putting 1.5gb and 
>> 1.25gb caused issues (crashes etc) when under heavy load ( so addressing 
>> all the memory ). Lowering to 1gb apparently resolved the issue.
>
> I tried quite a pile of 256MB modules in my PWS 500 until
> I found those pairs which did work so I could fill the
> box to the brim, i.e. 1.5GB. The annoying thing is, that
> even though many sticks appeared to be the right ones,
> they either crashed the box already during its selftest,
> or, even worse, they survived the early memtest only
> to crash the system (Tru64) later on :-(
> I'm not too keen to repeat all this with 512MB modules.
>
> Slightly related: it's a bit weird that none of the
> Alpha workstations and precious few entry systems allow
> to stuff more than 2GB of RAM into them, so that
> one could make proper use of the 64-bit CPU inside.
>