From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 2 02:18:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2347316A46C for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:18:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: from seaholm.caamora.com.au (seaholm.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E6C13C45A for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by seaholm.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id l821hKb17551; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:43:20 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <20070902114320.55981@caamora.com.au> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:43:20 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: ticso@cicely.de References: <46D85080.3020503@azuni.net> <20070901100254.GC54895@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <20070901100254.GC54895@cicely12.cicely.de>; from Bernd Walter on Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:02:55PM +0200 Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Cc: Rihad , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq ProLiant 6400R dram above 4Gb [was Re: Intel SR1500AL doesn't see 4 GB] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:18:12 -0000 On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:02:55PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:31:44PM +0500, Rihad wrote: > > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2 on Intel Server System SR1500AL > > with 4 gigs ram and CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz > > (2002.99-MHz 686-class CPU). The install goes OK, but FreeBSD doesn't > > recognize that there's 4 gigs of ram unless I rebuild the kernel with > > PAE enabled; it sees only ~2.5 gb otherwise. And there's a suspicious > > white line emmited during boot: like "1.5 gigs above 4 were ignored". > > What's up with that? As I'm new to high-end hardware, am I using the > > right FreeBSD build of i386? Why can't it see 4 gigs without PAE? > > You only have 4g physical address space without PAE and your board takes > 1.5G for memory mapping and such, so you only have 2.5G for RAM. > Most boards just claim 0.5G, but 1.5G is not that unusual. > Either use PAE, install amd64 if your CPU is 64bit capable or live with > just 2.5G. I am in a similar position, except I recently upgraded my server (Compaq ProLiant 6400R) by adding two more Xeon 500/100 Mhz L2 1 Mb and added 4 Gb dram to the original 1512 Mb .. now I am in the same sort of position with FreeBSD telling me that it will be ignoring the top 1512 Mb or there abouts > There is no other option, since this is a hardware limitation. My Xeons are the 32 bit versions so I suppose that in my case I get to use PAE ?? or do I loose the "top" 1512 Mb, or does my machine loose that memory completely and I would be better moving it to another machine ?? thanks in advance most kind regards jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ====