02-04-2022, 09:06 PM
Upgrading the PE1950s went quite smoothly.
The only hitch was six of the units were configured with 8 1GB memory sticks and six were configured with 4 2GB memory sticks. They were all bought at the same time, on the same order, from Dell. I do not know why they configured half of them differently. The end result was six boxes with 12GB each, instead of the 16GB I was hoping for.
I am changing my mind and plan to set them up as 3 with 8GB and 3 with 16GB. Only 3 were destined to be scene servers and they would benefit from the additional RAM. The other 3 do not benefit from more RAM.
Each of the new boxes has 256GB RAM. That is 4GB per thread core. I usually plan for 2GB per thread, which has worked out well; memory was getting tight on the 4 core/8GB boxes. I added more to the new boxes because it wasn’t too expensive.
The only hitch was six of the units were configured with 8 1GB memory sticks and six were configured with 4 2GB memory sticks. They were all bought at the same time, on the same order, from Dell. I do not know why they configured half of them differently. The end result was six boxes with 12GB each, instead of the 16GB I was hoping for.
I am changing my mind and plan to set them up as 3 with 8GB and 3 with 16GB. Only 3 were destined to be scene servers and they would benefit from the additional RAM. The other 3 do not benefit from more RAM.
Each of the new boxes has 256GB RAM. That is 4GB per thread core. I usually plan for 2GB per thread, which has worked out well; memory was getting tight on the 4 core/8GB boxes. I added more to the new boxes because it wasn’t too expensive.