From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 3 01:42:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33478E1F; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 01:42:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f45.google.com (mail-qa0-f45.google.com [209.85.216.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3391B33; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 01:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id hg5so1811644qab.18 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:42:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qSxJ5whp+26qXdHSLK4qB5fNIOKvEuGxougX85GyRCw=; b=gpijhA2Md24PtUUz8dRfYldycndLmDEeL9gFizxo+oYkUV9BYhKZB4PX8srx55CM9C ns/Cdp8F7Z1VLueN/QJvLZiTrIlmJmvoZGM/YXNecQD3SGOChZ8RHTRlVv/IJIJ1Ji2N M9/AsC3CG3VckL0dv7/Dmiyz+P7dKSgYdPHF3zEmR6y49zdDWJyrqPNXN0bJRTTT5oC0 gub9zD9rR90NNxxrbqrqkLnIAKQvsYtNDCLqFOOfP1QcX8ZjdNlbjRuaBXNwHIJjiVty PKSp1HKEu9rm9tSSVnXtLQZa1IlNa9VUw3wlZ3rUMEYRzfi77SihnFv9MfVtUDKBjTMP w/hg== X-Received: by 10.49.11.178 with SMTP id r18mr19717069qeb.56.1364953372043; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.34] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hm4sm5642255qab.2.2013.04.02.18.42.50 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515B8914.8030303@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:42:44 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade References: <515892C4.1060002@gmail.com> <5159F66B.2040600@gmail.com> <5159FF12.8030702@gmail.com> <515B4E16.3050901@gmail.com> <515B76A6.7080804@gmail.com> <515B78C2.20609@gmail.com> <515B8233.9000603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:42:59 -0000 I sent the sysctl booting with 12GB. 11GB + 1023MB is bad, 11GB + 512MB is fine. It failed within a couple minutes. I'd rather not split hairs and find out which amount of megs breaks it. But I noticed when it was failing, active_bpages was increasing, every other time it's zero. On 4/2/2013 8:18 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 2 April 2013 18:13, Joshua Isom wrote: >> I went half an hour being ok, and 12GB was dropping TCP connections in five >> minutes. I'm estimating a little, but it was unusable in just a little >> time. >> >> Using 10GB seems fine, but get's a lot bounced. The connections stable and >> responsive with just occasional packet loss, but bounced is 6307 right now. > > Bouncing is fine. Why bouncing is broken in the ath driver, I don't yet know. > > Sounds like I need to acquire a machine with 32GB RAM. Sigh. > > > > Adrian >