Re: Dual Opteron box, what's the optimal memory placement for theCPUs?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> Quick question,
>
> I've got an IBM eServer 325 here with 2 Opteron 240 CPUs. The box has 6
> DIMM slots, 4 for the "primary" CPU and 2 for the second one. I've got the
> following memory sticks : 4x512MB and 2x1GB
>
> My plan is to plug the 4 512MB sticks into the slots for the first CPU and
> the 2GB sticks into the two slots for the second CPU, giving them 2GB
> each, but I could also give the first one 2x512MB and 2x1GB and the second
> one 2x512MB giving the first CPU 3GB and the second 1GB. Does it matter at
> all.

doesn't really matter, they just have to be installed in pairs for bank 
interleaving. node interleaving is dependant on having banks on both cpu's 
populated.

> and if it does, what's the optimal configuration?
>
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> Jesper Juhl
>
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