From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 16:30:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553C71065670 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spawk@acm.poly.edu) Received: from acm.poly.edu (acm.poly.edu [128.238.9.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F4E8FC1A for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 97613 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2010 16:30:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.124?) (spawk@128.238.64.31) by acm.poly.edu with CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Oct 2010 16:30:38 -0000 Message-ID: <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:30:39 -0400 From: Boris Kochergin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101014 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , Sean Bruno Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM 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: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:39 -0000 On 10/15/10 12:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: >> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64 >> version up and running. >> >> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is >> having issues with>32GB of RAM in this box. >> >> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs? > If you booted a FreeBSD image that has "amd64" in the ISO name, then the > kernel is actually 64-bit (amd64). The only i386 piece would be the > bootloader. > > There's probably someone here who can help with the issue you describe, > as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experience > issues/problems when using very large amounts of RAM. > I've got an amd64 machine with 48 GB of RAM that has run 7, 8, and now 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to the amount of memory. -Boris