Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Joe Landman wrote:
As an FYI, Beowulf veteran Jeff Layton wrote up a nice article on memory
configuration issues for Nehalem (I had seen some discussion on this
previously).
Can anyone confirm that mixing different sizes of dimms, even when keeping to
a by-three-symmetric configuration, actually does degrade performance?
That is, first hand information that config 1 will be slower than config 2:
1: two sockets, 3x 1G and 3x 2G per socket RDIMM (total 18G @1066)
2: two sockets, 6x 1G(or 2G) per socket RDIMM (total 12G (or 24G) @1066)
/Peter
I can confirm it because I've got it on a test box I've been running :)
Jeff
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