[ale] Time to pick some brains technically

[Robert L. Harris]

Ok, I have this:

Debian 2.2 box.

root at mail.acs:~# uname -a
Linux mail.acs.internap.com 2.4.19-rc5aa1 #1 SMP Fri Aug 2 11:37:38 PDT
2002 i686 unknown

root at mail.acs:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:       5936304     212056    5724248          0      97632 32236
-/+ buffers/cache:      82188    5854116
(swap irrelevant, deleted)

(Quad-Proc, here's the last one)
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 548.217
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1094.45

root at mail.acs:~# cat /proc/pci | grep ^\ \ \ \ [a-zA-Z]
    Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 33).
    Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE Host Bridge (#2) (rev 1).
    Host bridge: PCI device 1166:0006 (ServerWorks) (rev 0).
    Host bridge: PCI device 1166:0006 (ServerWorks) (rev 0).
    Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
    VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 122).
    ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 80).
    IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller (rev 0).
    USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 USB Controller (rev 4).
    PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (rev 17).
    PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (#2) (rev 17).
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 1).
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (#2) (rev 1).
    Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (SX/TX) (rev 1).
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-3960D / AIC-7899A U160/m (rev 1).
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-3960D / AIC-7899A U160/m (#2) (rev 1).


The problem?  The thing has 16Gigs of RAM (corporate app server).  If we
try to enable more than 6 it locks up hard.  I've played with the "mem="
function to let us get this far.  All the hardware has been pulled and
tested clean.

Has anyone seen this and know a good work fix?  This thing has been a
pain since we got it.  The app is very memory intensive but I don't want
to replace it with a windows based version.  


Thoughts?
  Robert




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Robert L. Harris                
                               
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      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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