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Subject: Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8
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Hi, Miklos:

Thanks for the message.
Do you mean maybe the problem is caused by a RAID? But the box doesn't have a
RAID, only a single ATA Seagate 120GB.
The difference between the current running box and the crashed one is the
memory size.

- Yaoping

Miklos Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:03:53PM -0400, Yaoping Ruan wrote:
>
> > I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found
> > kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with
> > only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like
> > the "high mem" option in Linux?
>
> Maybe an Adaptec or similar RAID controller in the box?
>
> M