From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 20:00:51 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 4B5AA16A4E3; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from groat.ugcs.caltech.edu (groat.ugcs.caltech.edu [131.215.43.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D0D43D48; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:00:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: by groat.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix, from userid 3640) id 3A31458866; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:00:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by groat.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA2218001; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:00:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:00:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Dama To: Alan Jay In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 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 20:00:51 -0000 I concur that the situation got much better with 5.3-Stable. What I experienced afterward occurred only under load. -Jonathan On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Alan Jay wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > 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? > > [Alan Jay] I could not install with RELEASE but could with Stable. > > Once installed and running we installed mySQL on the two machines one we > copied over a relatively simple database which ran fine without a problem. > > The second machine then had another mySQL database moved to it and it started > to fall over. After a number of tests we moved the first database off the > what had been working server and put the other database on it. At which point > that server which had been stable fell over! > > > > 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.] > > [Alan Jay] I'll put them on my present list :) > > > 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. > > [Alan Jay] Well the memory seemed to be stable on 5.3 STABLE with more than > 4Gb in our case 8Gb there seems to be some other problem at work here. > > > 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) >