Craig writes:

> 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?

We've discussed this phenomenon before. Two postings that are of interest are
one of mine:

  http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104C&L=hp3000-l&D=0&P=8437

and one of Stan's:

  http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104C&L=hp3000-l&D=0&P=11564

The bottom line is that you might do well to take some (to a great deal) of
the memory *out* of the machine.

Wirt Atmar

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