From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:25:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF96116A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:25:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BCF43D4C; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:25:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FHPUkk083096; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1FHPU3M083095; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:30 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alan Jay Message-ID: <20050215172530.GC38158@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org cc: "'Jonathan A. Dama'" Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:25:34 -0000 [ PLEASE don't top post - it losses context, and this is a Unix mailing list] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -0000, Alan Jay wrote: > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to stable > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > databases (mySQL) one is reasonably heavily used and one very extensively > used. Just to be clear, you're stating you had stability problems with 5.3-RELEASE and >4GB. But with 5.3-STABLE and >4GB you have a stable system. Correct? > I think I agree wholeheartedly with your comments being a great supporter of > FreeBSD it is a shame that the AMD release is not as super as the other > versions we have used extensively. The problem is a major bug that has existed since FreeBSD ?3.0? was exposed very close to the 5.3 release cycle. This bug only causes a major problem with >4GB, thus few of us developers experienced it. [Most of us can't afford >4GB in our machines. Donations of 1GB DIMMs for FreeBSD developers are accepted by donations@FreeBSD.org.] Of course one reason many are moving to the AMD64 platform is to have >4GB RAM in the machine. We believe this bug has been fixed in 5.3-STABLE. But too few people are testing 5.3-STABLE and are using 5.3-RELEASE instead. This isn't helping us QA the issue so that we know all the corner cases are fixed in upcoming 5.4 release. A recent 5.3-STABLE snapshot can be found as ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Feb_2005/5.3-STABLE-SNAP001-amd64-miniinst.iso and mirrors. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)