From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 7:24:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3857737B419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBCFO9b63103; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:24:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:24:09 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Ben Laurie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 GB? Message-ID: <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <3C176C93.5C9405B0@algroup.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C176C93.5C9405B0@algroup.co.uk>; from ben@algroup.co.uk on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:41:23PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my experience, this type of problem has always turned out to be hardware. The more memory DIMMs you install in a MB the more likely it is to happen. I was able to _finally_ get my two dual Athlon systems with Tyan S2460 MBs to work with 1GB (4 256MB DIMMs for a total of 8 banks of memory), but only after replacing the MBs with newer revisions. Prior to doing that, I had one of them (with the older rev MB) run fine for 2 months before failing. It might be software in your case, but I certainly wouldn't rule out hardware! Bob On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:41:23PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote: > We have several new machines with 2 GB of RAM, all of which get random > signals during compilations. If we reduce them to 1.5 GB they work fine. > Is there anything we need to be tweaking to make 2 GB work? > > This is running 4.4-RELEASE. > > Cheers, > > Ben. > > -- > http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ > > "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he > doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Bob Willcox Boucher's Observation: bob@vieo.com He who blows his own horn always plays the music Austin, TX several octaves higher than originally written. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message