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Dell PowerEdge 1850 Fan Speed [closed]
I am looking for some way to adjust the fan speed of my home server. Currently they are extraordinarily loud.
There are no issues with temperature (highest the temp gets is around 60) and the fans ...
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server busy threshold? [closed]
i have a server with 512MB RAM running mysql and apache service. I have joomla site inside my server.
I want to ask,
is there a brief threshold limit of RAM when the server will be stated
as busy? ...
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How to retrieve memory type (rdimm or udimm)?
i've some DELL servers, some have registered dimm memory, others have unbuffered dimm. Do you know any way to programaticaly get this info ? wmi class win32_physicalmemory doesnt seem to help on this ...
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Bit flipping - detection and reasons
About a week ago I experienced one very interesting situation. I had a workstation - old desktop with Asus P5LD2 motherboard and 4 x 1 GB non-registered DDR2 Kingston memory. That same machine was a ...
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Hardware Diagnosis: Different Ram, Same Memtest Failure
Trying to diagnose random hardware freezes and did the natural thing; started memtesting everything.
DDR400 DDR2 Ram CAS 5-5-5-18
Four sets of sticks; 2x2GB PNY's and 2x1GB Elixirs
So far I've ...
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How do I upgrade my HP ProLiant ML150 G6 server RAM?
I want to upgrade the RAM on two HP ProLiant ML150 G6. They currently have 2 dimms labeled 2GB 2RX8 PC3-10600E-9-10-E0. I believe these are UDIMMs? The servers have a total of 12 memory slots.
In ...
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interpreting stickers on RAM
Does anyone know how to read the labels on RAM? Or have a link to a good resource for reading the labels?
Here's why I'm asking:
I have a third-party Dell server in my rack. The vendor sent us ...
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Can Low Volatage (LV) ram be mixed Regular Voltage RAM?
I heard from our vendor that it is okay to put LV voltage ram with regular voltage RAM. They said all that would happen is that the LV RAM would ramp up to match the 1.5v ram (in other words, the ram ...
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What are the risks of running a database on a server without ECC RAM? [duplicate]
A lot of branded servers come with ECC RAM, but it is expensive.
For a database server or other critical servers, what would be the impact of not using ECC RAM?
Data corruption? (I suppose the ...
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1answer
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How to read HP's manual about ram modules?
On page 48 in this user guide, it is explained in which order memory modules should be installed for an HP DL385 server with AMD Opteron CPUs.
There are 12 banks per CPU, and I have 6 x 4GB + 2 x 2GB ...
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determine hardware configuration using command line
I have a linux machine with ubuntu OS installed on it. Now I want to upgrade the hardware. Namely, I'd like to install more RAM. My question is, how do I determine which kind of RAM installed now, ...
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What is the difference between RDIMM vs UDIMM
I don't quite understand the differences between the two besides the obvious price differences. What does each offer over the other?
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Causes of hard drive SMART failure?
Specifically, can faulty system memory cause a hard drive SMART failure and can a bad hard drive connector cause a SMART failure?
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Why does a motherboards maximum memory change from UDIMM to RDIMM
Why does a motherboard like a SuperMicro MBD-X8DTH-6F-O support 24gb of unbuffered memory but also support 192gb of registered memory?
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what should i do with an extra ssd disc?
I have this server setup: http://www.server4you.com/root-server/server-details.php?products=5
That gives an extra 60 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD hard-disk. I don't want to use it as storage. What should i do ...
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Server 2008 Hard Faults
Hey all, plase bear with me as I haven't looked at a server in a very long time.
The problem I am having is with a Windows 2008 Standard FE Service Pack 2
Intel Xeon X3430 @ 2.40 2.39 GHZ
4 GB ...
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Server Vs Desktop vs Hosted for RAM Intensive, Low Traffic Application Serving Response to API
We are a startup looking at putting our semantic search system for resumes live. The system needs to provide responses to api queries for resume search by running through inverted index data of size ...
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1answer
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What are the advantages of registered memory?
I'm browsing for a few low-end servers for a startup and I'm a bit confused about the different memory types. The advantage of ECC is clear - single-bit error correction. When it comes to registered ...
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Need ideas for a cost effective, green (and small) Sql Server hardware build
I need to upgrade our internal Development Sql Server hardware. Right now it's an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz. I feel that the CPU is fine.
It's got 4Gig ram - yuck.
It's got a sub-par HD in it.
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3answers
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Mixing ram, what can I add that wont cause trouble?
Hey I have some of this this in a home server and wanted to throw another couple gigs in there. The problem is that its out of production, so I don't know what I can mix it with. I havent found ...
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How much RAM for a web server?
I am designing hardware requirements for ASP.NET web application. When it comes to memory, how much RAM does a web server need to work efficiently (use full processing power of CPUs)? Are there any ...
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How do I inventory the type and speed of a remote computer?
I'm on a Windows 2003/2008 corporate network with 100 users. I've been tasked with increasing the RAM on all end-user workstations.
The problem is we have a mixture of different computers in our ...
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How much hard drive space should I allocate to Virtual Memory? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how big should be the swap partition?
Back in the day the rule of thumb was "2.5 x Amount of RAM" = amount of virtual memory you need. So if you have 500MB of RAM you ...
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1answer
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memcached memory usage difference on 32- and 64-bit
We have a bunch of boxes running memcached. Some are 32-bit and some are 64-bit, but all run a 32-bit install of RHEL due to various Perl-related things. We'll call them type A and B respectively. ...
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Can I put 'registered' memory into an IBM HS21?
I've got a collection of HS21s (type 8853) that need a memory upgrade. Crucial's recommended memory kit is http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=6C00BFBAA5CA7304.
Searching around a ...
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Which type of memory is faster than average for server use?
I am building a server computer which will be used for SQL Server and I am planning to use like 32GB+ of RAM and putting the databases in memory. (I know all about data loss issues when power is ...
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4answers
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Dell Poweredge 2650 RAM Upgrade
I bought an old Dell Poweredge 2650 off ebay to use as a dev server, but I need to get more RAM for it. From what I understand there were 2 versions of the 2650 released, with the older version only ...
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3answers
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Is there a way to test RAM on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 machine?
Is there a way to test RAM on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 machine?
I have 6GB of RAM, and I suspect one of my 4 sticks may be bad.
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More RAM or More Cores for a MySQL Database Server?
Here's the scenario, which I'd love your expert advice on:
I've got about 2GB of database currently, maybe double that in a year. I want the optimum server performance for the dedicated DB server I'm ...
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1answer
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Recommend openSolaris file server hardware [closed]
On the SUN communityONE video they show a demo of openSolaris running on pretty beefy hardware, and the test I did in a VM (virtualbox) was definitely a hog resource-wise. My questions are regarding ...
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DIMMs: Single vs. Double vs. Quad Rank
What difference does the 'Rank' of DIMMs make to server memory? For example, when looking at server configurations I see the following being offered for the same server:
2GB (1x2GB) Single Rank ...
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Hard freezes and reboots when compiling
One of our workstations has begun to freeze or reset under some circunstances. We can reproduce this in both Linux and Windows so it's most likely a hardware issue.
The freezes most usually happen ...
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DDR3 vs DDR2 for numerical compute machine?
If you were speccing a deskside compute box (something like a quadcore XEON or Opteron and a bunch of RAM) to run code that is not highly memory bandwidth dependent, would you worry very much about it ...
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Server Motherboards Memory Per CPU
I noticed that on the new dual socket 1366 server type motherboards there are two banks of RAM. Does this mean that if I have 72GB of RAM installed that Windows will only allow 36GB per processor or ...
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Where to purchase a server capable of 512GB of RAM?
Where can I purchase a single server capable of 512 GB, yes GB, of RAM?
The most I've seen is 256 GB (32 DIMM x 8 GB per stick)
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Hardware multipliers
Can someone explain the different system multipliers? I know this is a base clock (a.k.a the System clock) then there is a multiplier for the Front side bus (FSB), RAM module, maybe for the RAM ...
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ECC chipkill errors: which DIMM?
We often get DIMMs in our servers going bad with the following errors in syslog:
May 7 09:15:31 nolcgi303 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: general bus error: participating processor(local node response), ...
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Laptops - RAM vs Disk for performance
In the perfect world I could get everything I want, however budgets for new laptops are low so I normally can get a user a laptop + additional RAM (to at least 4Gb). This has been mostly motivated by ...
