From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 10:37:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailbeast.ahaza.com (mailbeast.ahaza.com [209.180.221.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A812F37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from akira.ahaza.com (akira.ahaza.com [172.16.30.230]) by mailbeast.ahaza.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fB5IbpX80157; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from quark@akira.ahaza.com) Received: (from quark@localhost) by akira.ahaza.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB5IcXS09082; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from quark) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:38:33 -0800 From: Tim Wiess To: Varshavchick Alexander Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4G phisical memory kernel trap Message-ID: <20011205103833.A1624@ahaza.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alex@metrocom.ru on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:57:22PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander, I had experienced this problem before. It is most likely that you are running out of page table pages. Try changing NKPT in /sys/i386/include/pmap.h to 64. That worked for me. tim On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:57:22PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PIII box with 4G phisical memory and FreeBSD 4.2 and it traps > while booting - "fatal trap 12 page fault". With less than 4G memory the > server is working good. There is no MAXMEM option in the kernel (as is by > default). What would you suggest to make this box running with 4G? May be, > specifying MAXMEM slightly less than 4G, or what else? Thank you. > > Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company > Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message