From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 14:03:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343F316A420 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C0013C458 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-31-60.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.31.60]:61362 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IdRIh-0005qu-5D for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:03:39 +0200 Received: (qmail 48658 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2007 16:03:36 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 4 Oct 2007 16:03:36 +0200 Received: (qmail 67415 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Oct 2007 16:03:36 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:03:36 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Claus Guttesen Message-ID: <20071004140336.GA67367@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Claus Guttesen , Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras References: <47039CB4.5040306@seclark.us> <4703C245.9000104@mac.com> <4703C4FB.4030809@seclark.us> <4703C687.2010201@mac.com> <4703D5B6.4070003@seclark.us> <4704E87D.4020608@seclark.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.31.60 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IdRIh-0005qu-5D. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IdRIh-0005qu-5D 857be3f682083072da9d98f0fba01ffe Cc: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:03:41 -0000 On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:25:42PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > >>Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? > > > > > >1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of > > >memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that > > >many values) > > >2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get enough > > >memory > > >3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored in > > >kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot of > > >those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see > > >http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore > > >ZFS-specific things). > > It made no difference. Still the same error. > > > > Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found practically > > no information using > > google. > > But why use i386 with so much ram? Wouldn't it make more sense running > amd64 instead? The CPUs in his machine do not support amd64, so he is stuck with i386. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se