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Andrew Zonenberg · 1w
Second order hardware upgrade time! Trickle down may not work in economics but it's very real in the hardware world. All of those 16GB DDR4 DIMMs I pulled from my office desktop are going into the st...
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Hmm, I misremembered the hardware config. I thought all the Ceph nodes were 6x 8GB.

alexandria-1 had 6x 8GB sticks (48 GB) now has 6x 16GB (96 GB).

But alexandria-2 had 12x 4GB stick (48 GB) now has 6x 16GB (96 GB).

Alexandria-3 currently has 12x 4GB too.

I have 4x 16GB, 6x 8GB, 12x 4GB sticks out on the bench. Wut do?
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Andrew Zonenberg · 1w
It seems like the best I can probably do with the current hardware is to put 4x 16GB in there, bumping capacity from 48 to 64 GB, but with two channels empty. That will mean a slight degradation in RAM performance from 6 to 4 channel. Then I'll put all of the 8 and 4GB sticks in the giveaway pile, ...