From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 21:12:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 B59CD16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4276043D48 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:12:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i22so432575wra for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:12:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SVUI3P1f3OQpIsbn4hI/l3zmgxESvhcOoR5jwtDryPy6OQlNtv4HRBKtJRYtFMkq2ElSlkExBn5WaYooAe3DT8vQGcrgx4kbgZcz86qEUSqlinnJNNaujFDbch2JzcRDRa3Kz/4AtoUsRsAgRfLOR0v8QX8GjgcUXuFQr5DsEHE= Received: by 10.65.233.6 with SMTP id k6mr49950qbr; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.151.20 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:47:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:47:43 +0100 From: Claus Guttesen To: freebsd-amd64 List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 as postgresql-server X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:12:31 -0000 Hi. I just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a Tyan K8QS. It has two dual-core opteron 870's, 8 GB RAM, amr-raid using two drives in raid-1 and two bge onboard-nic's. I had problems recompiling kernel and world until I added hw.physmem=3D4GB to /boot/loader.conf. So I tried FreeBSD 6.0 to see if the problem went away. Same thing, so I added hw.physmem=3D3GB (again) and recompiled the kernel, this time omitting all ata-related code. After removing hw.physmem from loader.conf and rebooting the ata-free kernel world and kernel compiles without problems. Omitting ata isn't a big deal since the only ata-device is the dvd-drive. Since 6.0 just came out the door it may be premature to ask whether I should go for RELENG_6_0 or 5.4 (RELENG_5). The server will only be doing postgresql 7.4.9. Is anyone running postgresql with 8 GB RAM or more on 6.0? Our current (and slightly smaller hardware-wise) db-server is running RELENG_5_4 but I'd like to get the improved smp-, disk- and network-related improvements in 6.0. regards Claus