Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

From: Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 13:20:09 EDT

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    I'll frickin' whine if I want to :-). I still use bitkeeper on a Solaris 2.6
    machine with 32MB of memory.

    On Sat, 5 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

    > This is a 750Mhz K7 system with 1.5GB of memory in 3 512MB DIMMS. The
    > DIMMS are not ECC, but we use BitKeeper here and it tells us when we
    > have bad DIMMS.
    >
    > Guess what the memory cost? $396.58 shipped to my door, second day air,
    > with a lifetime warranty. I got it at www.memory4less.com which I found
    > using www.pricewatch.com. I have no association with either of those
    > places other than being a customer (i.e., this isn't advertising spam).
    >
    > I'm burning it in right now, I wrote a little program which fills it
    > with different test patterns and then reads them back to make sure they
    > don't lose any bits. Seems to be working, it's done about 30 passes.
    >
    > 1.5GB for $400. Amazing. No more whining from you guys that BitKeeper
    > uses too much memory :-)
    >
    > $ hinv
    > Main memory size: 1535.9375 Mbytes
    > 1 AuthenticAMD processor
    > 1 1.44M floppy drive
    > 1 vga+ graphics device
    > 1 keyboard
    > IDE devices:
    > /dev/hda is a ST310211A, 9541MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1216/255/63
    > SCSI devices:
    > /dev/sda is a 3ware disk, model 3w-xxxx 74.541 GB
    > PCI bus devices:
    > Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C691 Apollo Pro (rev 2).
    > PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0).
    > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super (rev 34).
    > IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16).
    > Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super ACPI (rev 48).
    > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
    > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
    > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
    > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
    > RAID storage controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 18).
    > VGA compatible controller: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1).
    > --
    > ---
    > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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