From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 3 08:55:35 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 91BE516A418 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@azuni.net) Received: from mail.azuni.net (ns0.azuni.net [217.25.25.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F6D13C474 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@azuni.net) Received: (qmail 33774 invoked by uid 1004); 3 Sep 2007 08:22:31 -0000 Received: from admin@azuni.net by mail.azuni.net by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(217.25.23.4):. Processed in 0.080396 secs); 03 Sep 2007 08:22:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?217.25.23.4?) (217.25.23.4) by ns0.azuni.net with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Sep 2007 08:22:31 -0000 Message-ID: <46DBC43C.2020209@azuni.net> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:22:20 +0500 From: Rihad Organization: UniNet User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron References: <46D85080.3020503@azuni.net> <20070901100254.GC54895@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070902114320.55981@caamora.com.au> <46DA25C1.9000703@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <46DA25C1.9000703@freebsdsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jonathan michaels , ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:55:35 -0000 Lanny Baron wrote: > Hi, > If you install FreeBSD 6.2-AMD/64 you will be able to use all available > memory. Thanks for the hint! This inspired my curiosity enough to try the boot-only image and see if it boots and runs at all, which it does perfectly! It turns out that "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU >>>> 5130 @ 2.00GHz (2002.99-MHz 686-class CPU)" can do the 64-bit thing (note the "5130" part) [*]. The time has come to say 32-bit only when meaning "not 64" :-) Goodbye, i386! [*] http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=slagc > Regards, > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > Lanny Baron > FreeBSD Systems > High Performance Servers and RAID Systems > > Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 > http://www.freebsdsystems.com > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > > > jonathan michaels wrote: >> 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 >> >