Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:30 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Alan Jay <alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk> Cc: "'Jonathan A. Dama'" <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard Message-ID: <20050215172530.GC38158@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0502141729540.17073@groat.ugcs.caltech.edu> <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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[ 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)
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