From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 01:49:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA5916A4D0 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:49:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com (smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com [216.240.97.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8872343D31 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:49:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com (mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com [216.240.97.39]) by smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0N224Eo039668 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:02:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from [64.45.134.154] (dogpound.dyndns.org [64.45.134.154]) by mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0N1nReE061273 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:49:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Message-ID: <41F3022C.7070603@dmv.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:47:24 -0500 From: Sven Willenberger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <41F1903D.3060508@celeritystorm.com> <20050121235550.GA85260@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <41F199B3.1030809@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41F199B3.1030809@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 216.240.97.39 Subject: Re: Would this system work correctly with FreeBSD 5.3 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:49:29 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > > 4GB+ is a problem on 5.3-RELEASE due to DMA issues. Only a small > handful of storage drivers will actually work. > We are looking to implement a postgresql solution using dual opteron/8G RAM and LSI battery-backed scsi card (LSI MegaRAID 320-2X - 53C1030 controller) RAID array. Are there any issues with this type of configuration?? Looking at the hardware Release notes I do not see any mention of this memory issue or what storage drivers are or are not affected.