From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 10:46:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03681 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03571 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00563; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:46:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199802051846.NAA00563@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Memory Problem In-Reply-To: <199802051819.NAA12896@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> from Rob Miracle at "Feb 5, 98 01:19:28 pm" To: rwm@MPGN.COM (Rob Miracle) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:46:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Rob Miracle said: > I have a remote machine that just had a new 128M of memory added, bringing > the total up to 384M. I rebuilt the kernel remotely to recognize the > memory and when it reboots I get the following error (phoned it by the > people on site) > > real memory=402653184 (393216K bytes) > kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3 > panic: kmem_suballoc > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds > > Bad memory? It goes through the POST fine. Any info would be appreciated. > Please reply via email instead of to the list. > I'll reply to both: Try turning off the bounce buffers option. If you are running -current, the problem shouldn't exist after a week ago or so. I think that someone who can run 2.2.X will hopefully make the mods to -stable derived from -current, so that the problem will happen less often in 2.2.6. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.