From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 13:50:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE6F16A419 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD8513C43E for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:50:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so148844nfb for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:50:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=THW0VqEShwT2ZHFOv/QoMTRGjum3eQU14/rgjK9tcBM=; b=pBIygztULYEryQcujDEMKvpSKI4jV7MgiuYYDziuF+YCHWLSPt7HKRRibWKD/rPwPW5dSGlOhqrkPstJ19jfq5rXWkvAbL8F/0ASsx2I0WxLySK+ukzzWORU41zvMusc35/SMTTRan59QgMpYWKX9Y1+B/+cnY0o+9T7aZvmlrw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K2hU9lldvykQvIyasMsHjg25lSQOEsLd+TS5iCvWcAI1gpTFPb/v84KO5uwivF5wze9dLOPBBpI7EKU4H9pX1UM8PbmhJSbc8Sk9XqpHzB91KuUL9N78xaAeuJx7Ilzbgfpdv5w4lShJoeDt1D8QYhNuNsi7kCr3l3wrIQ9PBR0= Received: by 10.78.129.16 with SMTP id b16mr7662569hud.1191504342239; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.146.10 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:25:42 +0200 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us In-Reply-To: <4704E87D.4020608@seclark.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47039CB4.5040306@seclark.us> <4703C245.9000104@mac.com> <4703C4FB.4030809@seclark.us> <4703C687.2010201@mac.com> <4703D5B6.4070003@seclark.us> <4704E87D.4020608@seclark.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:50:33 -0000 > >>Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? > > > >1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of > >memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that > >many values) > >2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get enough > >memory > >3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored in > >kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot of > >those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see > >http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore > >ZFS-specific things). > It made no difference. Still the same error. > > Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found practically > no information using > google. But why use i386 with so much ram? Wouldn't it make more sense running amd64 instead? -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare