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From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james@jrv.org>
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Subject: 5.4 RC2 PAE unstable?
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PAE is unstable for me with 8GB of RAM.
Also, device arcmsr does not compile with PAE.

The test is to loop on "make buildworld;make clean".  The system seems 
to reboot within an hour or so.

Testbed is a Tyan K8W S2885 with two Opteron 246 CPUs (but no SMP 
kernel) and 8 GB of RAM.  Disk controller  is the onboard serial-ATA 
controller.   NIC is an Intel em(3) PCI-X card.

The hardware seems to work fine with the amd64 port. It does the same 
test loop for at least a day without incident.

5.4 RC2 was installed from a CD with "config PAE" using the shipped PAE 
file with a line "nodevice arcmsr" added at the end.