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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:36:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-Stable & Dual Opteron with 12GB memory!
Message-ID:  <20050309233554.U53915@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <422E0974.1060100@mullet.se>
References:  <422E0974.1060100@mullet.se>

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Martin Nilsson wrote:

> Anybody running a recent 5.3-stable amd64 on a box with lots of memory,
> and does it work?
>
>  From very brief testing a Dual Opteron with 12GB memory just reboots
> when the kenel probes devices. SATA disks on built in SiL 3114
> controller. 5.3-stable from yesterday compiled with -O, the system works
> with 8GB memory.
>
> Have anybody else got a similar system working?

There was a known problem with 5.3-RELEASE and >4GB RAM. As you found,
5.3-stable has the fix, as well as 5.3-RELEASE-p5.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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