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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:26:00 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@juniper.net>
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Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Josef Grosch wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled 
> a PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes 
> during heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade -rav. Does anyone have 
> experience with this sort of machine and would you care to share your 
> kernel config file and/or advice.

Have you tried a non-PAE kernel?  If its a new unit, I imagine its 64bit, 
which, as far as I'm aware, doesn't require PAE  ... ?

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