[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[Stephen Kraus]

I run a Dell Precision T5500 with 144GB ECC DDR3 and a Dell Precision M7510
and Chromium chews up more memory than AutoDesk.

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth my year-old mid-level Dell Optiplex (7030) supports up
> to 64 GB and an (mumble) drive - the one that's on a small daughterboard.
> The small form factor system itself was under $1k, and the disk and extra
> 32GB of memory (46 GB total) added another $500. I wish I could have gotten
> the system without the windows disk though. :-(
>
> Chromium still manages to consume all of the memory.
>
> It's a nice dev system since that much memory allows me to run multiple
> virtualbox instances. For instance the 8 GB and multiple cores required for
> a Cloudera Express Hadoop instance is a major drag on my other systems but
> it's nothing on this system.
>
> Obviously Dell sells servers that support even more memory (for a lot more
> money) or you could build your own. If that's what you need then that's
> what you'll need to do. But for most of us 64 GB is more than enough and
> this is solid hardware for the price.
>
> (For the original question - it sounded like 128GB (or more) is ideal but
> it's only needed for a quarterly import. A system with 64 GB might be a
> good compromise between cost and wear on the SSD.)
>
> (Dell has three levels. Inspiron is the consumer grade systems. Optiplex
> is the business class systems - it has beefed up hardware so it's better
> for systems that are up 24/7. I don't remember the name of the server class
> systems. Email me directly if you want to know what's currently on sale -
> it can be cheaper to buy the prepackaged special and then customize it than
> to make a per-spec order.)
>
> Bear
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:02 AM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at SuperMicro. In general:
>> https://www.supermicro.com/ResourceApps/MB_matrix.aspx
>>
>> One example:
>> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C420/X11SRA-RF.cfm
>> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C620/X11SPW-TF.cfm
>>
>> FYI, you might note the chipset of the boards which meet your criteria,
>> and then do web searches based on chipset.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
>> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <
>> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>> Sent: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:57:17 -0000 (UTC)
>> Subject: [lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB
>> Just a note for anyone thinking about large ram amounts in a single
>> system.
>> In looking at motherboards and systems on the web I haven't seen any
>> intel i7
>> or amd ryzen systems that could be configured for more than 128GB.
>> Motherboards
>> that take an i7 or a xeon cpu have all had a max of 128G for the i7 and
>> max
>> of 256G or more for the xeon.
>> This is a bummer for a database load process that isn't cpu constrained
>> with
>> a low-end i5 but could benefit from lots of ram. A xeon is just overkill.
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