Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:44:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Miele <bmiele@ipnstock.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@juniper.net> Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram Message-ID: <20060907173812.E2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> In-Reply-To: <20060907182533.D64655@ganymede.hub.org> References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <20060907182533.D64655@ganymede.hub.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have 2 new dl380/G5s which threw the Memory above 4G ignored errors unless i used a PAE kernel. my kernel config is below, the machine has been up and has had no trouble with portupgrade/buildworld, etc. but it is not in production yet either and i have not put a ton of stress on it. I have 6G ram, so not nearly as much. fwiw, here is my conf. I pretty much rolled the PAE config into my custom conf. The custom conf has as much as I possible could lose stripped out. machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident MYBOXYO # To make an SMP kernel, the next line is needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel # To make a PAE kernel, the next option is needed options PAE # Physical Address Extensions Kernel # for apache2 options ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP # Compile acpi in statically since the module isn't built properly. Most # machines which support large amounts of memory require acpi. device acpi # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built with # the correct options headers. makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes # What follows is a list of drivers that are normally in GENERIC, but either # don't work or are untested with PAE. Be very careful before enabling any # of these drivers. Drivers which use DMA and don't handle 64 bit physical # address properly may cause data corruption when used in a machine with more # than 4 gigabytes of memory. nodevice ahb nodevice amd nodevice sym nodevice trm nodevice adv nodevice adw nodevice aha nodevice aic nodevice bt nodevice ncv nodevice nsp nodevice stg nodevice asr nodevice dpt nodevice mly nodevice hptmv nodevice ida nodevice mlx nodevice pst nodevice agp nodevice de nodevice txp nodevice vx nodevice nve nodevice pcn nodevice sf nodevice sis nodevice ste nodevice tl nodevice tx nodevice vr nodevice wb nodevice cs nodevice ed nodevice ex nodevice ep nodevice fe nodevice ie nodevice lnc nodevice sn nodevice xe nodevice wlan nodevice wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support nodevice wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support nodevice wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support nodevice an nodevice ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's nodevice ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) nodevice ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath nodevice awi nodevice ral nodevice wi nodevice uhci nodevice ohci nodevice ehci nodevice usb nodevice ugen nodevice uhid nodevice ukbd nodevice ulpt nodevice umass nodevice ums nodevice ural nodevice urio nodevice uscanner nodevice aue nodevice axe nodevice cdce nodevice cue nodevice kue nodevice rue ##### makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols #options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption options INET # InterNETworking #options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. device apic # I/O APIC # Bus support. device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers #device aha # Adaptec 154x SCSI adapters #device aic # Adaptec 15[012]x SCSI adapters, AIC-6[23]60. # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device ch # SCSI media changers device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) # RAID controllers interfaced to the SCSI subsystem device ciss # Compaq Smart RAID 5* # RAID controllers # device ida # Compaq Smart RAID # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device psm # PS/2 mouse device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer device vga # VGA video card driver device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc device agp # support several AGP chipsets # Power management support (see NOTES for more options) #device apm # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254. device pmtimer # Serial (COM) ports device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports # Parallel port device ppc device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet # Pseudo devices. device loop # Network loopback device random # Entropy device device ether # Ethernet support device sl # Kernel SLIP device ppp # Kernel PPP device tun # Packet tunnel. device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) device md # Memory "disks" device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation) # The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP. device bpf # Berkeley packet filter # USB support device usb # USB Bus (required) Brad --------------------- Brad Miele VP Technology IPNStock.com 866 476 7862 x902 bmiele@ipnstock.com On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Josef Grosch wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled a >> PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes during >> heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade -rav. Does anyone have experience with >> this sort of machine and would you care to share your kernel config file >> and/or advice. > > Have you tried a non-PAE kernel? If its a new unit, I imagine its 64bit, > which, as far as I'm aware, doesn't require PAE ... ? > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060907173812.E2717>