Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: experiences with Tyan S4881?

[Tamas Karpati]

Hi Duncan & Ryan,

Thanks for the hints so far. I'm going to check out Tyan's support for Linux
before getting more astonished (by the possibilities Duncan mentioned :)

I think the 4-way plugin and the possibility to substitute single to dual core
procs are one of S4881's strengths but I'm not sure that next year or later
(when one gets the money) it will still be possible to order the plugin.

One more promising fact is that I haven't seen the half-of-four gigs waste of
RAM with Tyan S2882 (as opposed to MSI MasterX-Far mobs which,
in addition, wouldn't let me install >4G). As I'v learnt from one of
Duncan's earlier messages, it was most probably due to address space
allocation for various buses by the BIOS. On S2882, I could also mix up RAM
modules of various sizes and clock rates (I suppose the mob syncronized to
the slowest) on any of the two ranks...

Anyways, I hope memory can be shared on S4881 (or -D, S4882) as well
as on S2882, meaning that any thread can utilize any part of (or all) the
physical memory mounted on the mob. They want to use all the 64G memory
(only "all" because (i) no mob supports more and (ii) resources are limited).

Thanks again,
  Tamas
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