Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:32:45 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E4500 with 24GB RAM Message-ID: <429A7B4D.3080102@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050530.025302.64839649.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <20050530.025302.64839649.hrs@allbsd.org>
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Hiroki Sato wrote: > Hi, > > I tried RELENG_5 on 10-way E4500 with 24GB RAM but the following > panic occurred just after loading the kernel: > > |FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Thu May 26 15:53:20 JST 2005 > | hrs@e4500-2.allbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/E4500_2 > |real memory = 25769803776 (24576 MB) > |kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3. > |panic: kmem_suballoc > |cpuid = 0 > > The box worked fine after disabling some of the memory modules > by OpenBoot. 4GB RAM worked, but more than that didn't. > > Is it currently difficult to handle memory more than 4GB > on FreeBSD/sparc64? If there is some workaround or > something I can help, please let me know. Thanks. > I'd guess that you're the first to have access to so much memory and a machine to hold it. The error means that vm_map_find() returned KERN_NO_SPACE. It could be that there is a 64-bit bug in the code, or it could be that the page tables to index so much memory consume all available space in the kernel map. Scott
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