From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 2:22: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9905737B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1B443E88 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18GGNI-0001Xe-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:21:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 44A00BB11 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:21:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id B78901854 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:21:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 3577022596; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:21:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:21:35 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wierd message followed mem prob Message-ID: <20021125102135.GA1070@raggedclown.net> References: <20021125044616.E24473-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021125044616.E24473-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:49:48AM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Hi, > This is in addition to my last mail. Just to reiterate, I'm using > FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of a few days ago, and I've never seen this problem > before. The wierd message comes from /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c: > > "Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up" > > It prints before even the copyright message on bootup. Second is (I think > as a result of this message) My total memory is too small by over 100M (I > have 512M): > > Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 25 04:25:46 EST 2002 > culverk@kenshin.yumyumyum.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERNEL > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (1667.40-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 > > Features=0x383fbff OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > AMD Features=0xc0400000 > real memory = 402669568 (393232K bytes) > avail memory = 386879488 (377812K bytes) > > Anyone know what's going on/how to fix it? > You might look at the "NO_MEMORY_HOLE" option in /usr/src/i386/conf/LINT. No idea if it is relevant to you, but it maybe worth looking at. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message