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Subject: IRIX 4.0: how much memory?
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Date: 21 Aug 92 09:49:13 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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We're considering an upgrade from IRIX 3.3 to 4.0, now that
the rest of you have served as the guinea pigs :-)  :-)
... Anyway, the problem is we've been told 4.0 needs 'more memory'
but not how much 'more'.  So a couple of questions arise:

(1) With 16 MB will our 4D/25 only have problems at the margin,
for heavy loads or the largest applications; or will the thing
turn into an electronic doorstop?

(2) All of the simm slots are filled with 1 MB simms.  If more memory
is essential our ideal strategy would be to replace one bank of simms
with 4 MB, for a total of (4*4 + 12*1) = 28 MB of memory.  But we've
gotten a gazillion different answers about whether 4 MB and 1 MB
simms can co-exist in the same machine.  We'd very much like to hear
from  anyone out there who actually **HAS** 4 MB and 1 MB simms in
their machine, or who tried it and found it didn't work.  We've gotten
lots of answers along the lines of 'I don't think it will work' or
'It ought to work ok', but no real case histories.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.
________________________________________________________________________
Raymond W. Arritt                     |  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor                   |  University of Kansas
[e-mail]             |  Lawrence, KS  66045
Apr  1 12:29:21 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE
Apr  1 12:29:27 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A CANDIDATE
Apr  1 12:29:31 timed[92]: This machine is master