Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:21:46 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: sbruno@freebsd.org Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM Message-ID: <20101016222146.GA70296@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <1287258720.2522.26.camel@home-yahoo> References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> <1287258720.2522.26.camel@home-yahoo>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, 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 > > Hrm, no success today setting available RAM to 32G and reducing the > number of processors to 8. > > I've disabled and tweaked pretty much everything available to me here > and have tried to boot up the fbsd 8 install media with the same result > as using the fbsd 7 media: Repeated and continuous panics on all > processors simultaneously after selecting install method from the boot > menu. > > Not sure what to do at this point to get the system up and running. > Suggestions? I can say it's not the RAM amount since I'm running 8 on: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz (2261.01-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Family = 6 Model = 1a Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x9ce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT> AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 77310459904 (73729 MB) avail memory = 74596175872 (71140 MB) -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFMuiV5XY6L6fI4GtQRArFmAKDcq8wuuZXt00aRhDfUO4j7k6bZ5wCdG56F IYSnGHITY0DtTl5JY9fnFAY= =zFi+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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