From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 26 16:22:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE29337B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAR0Pst05045; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111270025.fAR0Pst05045@mass.dis.org> To: "Frost, Stephen C" Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Solution for "panic: swap_pager_swap_init: swap_zone == NULL"? In-Reply-To: Message from "Frost, Stephen C" of "Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:39:51 PST." Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:25:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day. I'm sorry to say that 4.4 has a regression related to systems with 4GB of memory, mostly related to poor test coverage. You can work around this by reducing the amount of physical memory that the kernel will use by setting a loader tunable. At the 10-second countdown before the kernel starts, hit the spacebar and at the 'ok' prompt type set hw.physmem=3G boot Once the system is up and installed, edit /boot/loader.conf and add the line hw.physmem="3G" to avoid having to repeat the process every time you boot. This issue has been corrected in later 4.4-STABLE snapshots, and should not recur in future releases. I hope this helps; please don't hesitate to contact us should you have any more questions. Regards, Mike > I am brand new to the OS. I test NIC drivers for Intel products and we are > turning towards an emphasized support for FreeBSD. One of my test boxes > produces the following error on bootup: "panic: swap_pager_swap_init: > swap_zone == NULL" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message