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	Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM
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On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:30 -0700, Boris Kochergin wrote:
> 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
> __________

Edge case at 64G perhaps?  That's the minimum you can get in the HP
DL980 apparently.

Sean