From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 17:02:55 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 1B4EB106566B for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:02:55 +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 AB8358FC1D for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 98347 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2010 17:02:53 -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 17:02:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4CB8893F.1060707@acm.poly.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:02:55 -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: Sean Bruno References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> In-Reply-To: <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , Jeremy Chadwick 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 17:02:55 -0000 On 10/15/10 12:38, Sean Bruno wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" My same machine spent the first year of its life with 64 GB (running 7 and 8) before its motherboard died, so it would have to be after 64. -Boris