Memory

Most of these posts are simply my internal notes turned into something I can share with others. I definitely don’t claim to be an expert on every topic I write about, but I hope they can serve as a useful starting point, reference, or outline for someone working on a similar problem. If you spot anything that could be improved, corrected, or explained better, I’d really appreciate your feedback. Always happy to learn and improve!

Demystifying Server Memory

For a long time, I used to populate server memory mostly based on common sense and experience, not really on a deep technical understanding of why things worked the way they did. Back then, it was often a game of trial and error I’d try a certain combination of DIMMs, the server wouldn’t boot, I’d …