Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2001 10:20:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Matthew Jacob <> | Subject | Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap! |
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I'll frickin' whine if I want to :-). I still use bitkeeper on a Solaris 2.6 machine with 32MB of memory.
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> This is a 750Mhz K7 system with 1.5GB of memory in 3 512MB DIMMS. The > DIMMS are not ECC, but we use BitKeeper here and it tells us when we > have bad DIMMS. > > Guess what the memory cost? $396.58 shipped to my door, second day air, > with a lifetime warranty. I got it at www.memory4less.com which I found > using www.pricewatch.com. I have no association with either of those > places other than being a customer (i.e., this isn't advertising spam). > > I'm burning it in right now, I wrote a little program which fills it > with different test patterns and then reads them back to make sure they > don't lose any bits. Seems to be working, it's done about 30 passes. > > 1.5GB for $400. Amazing. No more whining from you guys that BitKeeper > uses too much memory :-) > > $ hinv > Main memory size: 1535.9375 Mbytes > 1 AuthenticAMD processor > 1 1.44M floppy drive > 1 vga+ graphics device > 1 keyboard > IDE devices: > /dev/hda is a ST310211A, 9541MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1216/255/63 > SCSI devices: > /dev/sda is a 3ware disk, model 3w-xxxx 74.541 GB > PCI bus devices: > Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C691 Apollo Pro (rev 2). > PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0). > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super (rev 34). > IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16). > Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super ACPI (rev 48). > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). > RAID storage controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 18). > VGA compatible controller: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1). > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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