Hi Craig :)
   um... I remember when I was writing a proposal to bring our 979-200 up to
~6 GB of RAM I found out that you can actually cause "system overhead" to
increase if you add the memory in a non-recommended way... for us that meant
that we needed to add an additional memory carrier and make the memory as
balanced (read mirror image) between the two carriers.  Could this be what
HP was referring to?

    I remember that I had to call a CE directly to get the bottom line on
this... the RC was "pretty sure" that I "might" need to buy an extra memory
carrier ... but "not guaranteed" on that answer...

Art "hmmm... no earthquakes yet? hehe" Bahrs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig M. Lalley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:24 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Upgrading Memory


> OK Guys,
>
> Here's a fun one.
>
> I have a customer running a 997/800 with 10Gb of memory.
>
> The system is spending on average 9% of the CPU on memory management.
>
> Caaack!
>
> My recommendation is to upgrade to 16GB and max out the configuration.
>
> But wait, HP says NO.  "Adding more memory will have a ?rebound? effect
> and make matters worse."
>
> So am I missing something or HP smoking something?
>
>
> Craig M. Lalley
>
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>
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