From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 13:20:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04851065749 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis.nikiforov@gmail.com) Received: from ns1.torqhost.com (ns1.torqhost.com [212.47.209.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391EA8FC17 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [80.79.112.253] (helo=[10.0.1.8]) by ns1.torqhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QAMSu-0008Kh-Ob; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:20:08 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Dennis Nikiforov In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:20:29 +0300 Message-Id: <49499F0E-41E0-4BC6-80F7-333912D281D6@gmail.com> References: <209FDCEC-0335-4C1D-9974-ACB2BCFDEC28@gmail.com> To: krad X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE: Cannot fork X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:20:32 -0000 Well, the idea was to run many instances of the app (each process does = not need more than a couple of gigs of ram). Using virtualization is = another option, but it will require a lot more maintenance of every VM. = It would be a lot better if a single OS can use PAE. On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM, krad wrote: >=20 >=20 > On 14 April 2011 11:14, Dennis Nikiforov = wrote: > There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit = systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. >=20 > On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: >=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov = wrote: >> Hello, >>=20 >> I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard = PAE kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed = like this have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue = because all memory tests have been negative. >>=20 >> basically the issue comes after PAE kernel has been compiled = and the system outputs all the time the following: >>=20 >> cannot fork kstack allocation failed or vm_thread_new: kstack = allocation failed >>=20 >> Since, this is a dell server there is basically nothing that I = can disable in BIOS, so perhaps someone knows what loader options do I = need to tweak the kernel and stop this from happening. >>=20 >> Thanks, >> Dennis_______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 >>=20 >> why not use 64 bit as the r210 should be capable >=20 >=20 > not even with lib32, also why not just not run pae. After all if its a = 32bit app it cant address all the ram anyhow