Can you post what were the tweaking that you had undergone to access the 4GB? Thank you.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">stephen mulcahy</b> <<a href="mailto:smulcahy@aplpi.com">
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Hi,<br><br>I'm maintaining a 20-node cluster of Tyan K8SREs (4GB RAM, dual Opteron<br>270s) which are being used primarily for Oceanographic modelling (MPICH2<br>running on Debian/Linux 2.6 kernel).<br><br>I had to make some tweaks to make all 4GB of RAM visible to the OS.
<br><br>I'm now at the point where I'm considering a pass at performance tuning<br>the system. Before I start on OS level tuning, I'm trying to figure out<br>whether there are any performance improvements to be had from tweaking
<br>BIOS settings, particularly those relating to Memory and ECC. I have a<br>reasonable conceptual understanding of what the various settings are doing<br>(and have glanced at the AMD BIOS developers guide for reference) but I am
<br>very unclear on what the potential performance impact of any of these<br>settings are. Does anyone have any general advice or pointers to good<br>reference information on this?<br><br>My current settings are,<br><br>Hammer Configuration
<br> HT-LDT Frequency Auto<br> Dual-Core Enable Enabled<br> ECC Features<br> ECC Enabled<br> ECC Scrub Redirection Enabled<br> Dram ECC Scrub CTL Disabled
<br> Chip-Kill Disabled<br> DCACHE ECC Scrub CTL Disabled<br> L2 ECC Scrub CTL Disabled<br><br> Memory Hole<br> 4GB Memory Hole Adjust Manual
<br> 4GB Memory Hole Size 768 MB<br> IOMMU Enabled<br> Size 32 MB<br> Memhole mapping Hardware<br><br> Memory Config<br> Swizzle Memory Banks Enabled
<br> DDR clock jitter Disabled<br> DDR Data Transfer Rate Auto<br> Enable all memory clocks Populated<br> Controller config mode Auto<br> Timing config mode Auto
<br> AMD PowerNow! Disabled<br> Node Memory Interleave Auto<br> Dram Bank Interleave Auto<br> GART Error Reporting Disabled<br> MTRR Mapping Discrete<br><br><br>Any comments on those welcome.
<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>-stephen<br><br><br>--<br> Stephen Mulcahy Applepie Solutions Ltd <a href="http://www.aplpi.com">http://www.aplpi.com</a><br> Unit 30, Industry Support Centre, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland.
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