From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:07:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5F316A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:07:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589E243D3F; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:07:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.19] (ibook-nai.samsco.home [192.168.254.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FH7iDJ034963; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:07:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42122C4C.3050202@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:07:24 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Jay References: <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050215165352.4452143D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org 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-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:07:30 -0000 Alan Jay wrote: > Thanks Jonathan for this, can I ask the unmentionalble (which Linux > implementation did you pick?). > > 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. They sit on different servers to maximise performance. One worked > perfectly for a couple of weeks while the other more extensive one repeatedly > 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. > > Thanks for your support. > > Regards > ALan > The >4GB problems with 5.3-RELEASE are a well known problem and affect for i386 and amd64. It's pretty much fixed in the 5.3-STABLE stream, but there are a few edge cases that I still need to fix which prevent me from feeling good about turning it into a 5.3-R errata fix. It'll definitely be fixed and fully working for 5.4-RELEASE next month. Scott