[gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2024-09-04, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 07:09:43PM -0000 schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> […]
>> I plugged them in alongside the recently purchased pair. Wouldn't
>> work. Either pair of SIMMs worked fine by themselves, but the only way
>> I could get both pairs to work together was to drop the clock speed
>> down to about a third the speed they were supposed to support.
>
> Indeed that was my first thought when Dale mentioned getting another
> pair. I don’t know if it’s true for all Ryzen chips, but if you use
> four sticks, they may not work at the maximum speed advertised by
> AMD (not counting in overlcocking). If you kept the settings to Auto
> you shouldn’t get problems, but RAM may work slower then.

Yea, I thought auto should work, but it didn't. I had to manually
lower the RAM clock speed to get all four to work at the same
time. The BIOS screens were a bit mind-boggling (very high on
graphics, dazzle, and flash -- very low on usability). So it's
possible I didn't really have auto mode correctly enabled.

> OTOH, since you don’t do hard-core gaming or scientific
> number-crunching, it is unlikely you will notice a difference in
> your every-day computing.

In my case I compared an "emerge" that took several minutes, and it
took significantly longer with the lower RAM clock speed. I decided I
was better off with fewer GB of faster RAM.