OCS Linux hardware details

Everything I've read online and in APRESS JWatson OCS 10g indicates that even for development, 2GB is marginal for a single host OCS deployment in x86 Linux, and for comparison a single node production OCS instance would require a dual/duo CPU with 4GB to support 1-200 users.
Lots of systems on the Red Hat HCL and http://linux.oracle.com/hardware.html, but to build development sandboxes a list of compatible mainboards or a cross-reference resource would be very useful.
Was thinking the Gigahertz GA-8I945GZME-RH mainboard in the Red Hat HCL Certified PCS PRODiiGY 945GZ NL, but it only appears to support 2GB RAM...
Can anyone enhance this thread with resources or relevant info?

Also important to keep in mind Oracle 10.1 corresponds to RHEL2.1 and 10.2 to RHEL4:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:6090133761547
To answer my own question:
One cross reference product of the Oracle Linux list
and the Red Hat HCL Intel list is the 6 slot 8GB
Intel P4 based SE7230NH1-E (LX Version):
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7230nh1-e
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7230nh1-e
/309049.pdf
http://linux.oracle.com/hardware
https://hardware.redhat.com/hwcert/list.cgi?product=Re
d+Hat+Hardware+Certification&quicksearch=Intel&showall
=1
Should work.
Chose Intel based chipset due to a problem booting
RHEL4 due to a known bug in the nVidia chipset which
occurs in many distros:
MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to io-apic
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php
?t=482021&highlight=MP
Everything I've read online and in APRESS JWatsonOCS
10g indicates that even for development, 2GB is
marginal for a single host OCS deployment in x86
Linux, and for comparison a single nodeproduction
OCS instance would require a dual/duo CPU with 4GB
to
support 1-200 users.
Lots of systems on the Red Hat HCL and
http://linux.oracle.com/hardware.html, but to build
development sandboxes a list of compatible
mainboards
or a cross-reference resource would be very useful.
Was thinking the Gigahertz GA-8I945GZME-RH
mainboard
in the Red Hat HCL Certified PCS PRODiiGY 945GZ NL,
but it only appears to support 2GB RAM...
Can anyone enhance this thread with resources or
relevant info?

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