From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 23:39:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E65116A4CE; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:39:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1711043D3F; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:39:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0C63885671; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:09:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:09:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Peter Wemm Message-ID: <20050330233946.GB6252@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424B308C.7070506@samsco.org> <20050330230951.GY84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200503301525.37798.peter@wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503301525.37798.peter@wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Stable Users cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:39:50 -0000 --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:25:37 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:09 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> As I described, it doesn't appear to be the drivers. >>> >>> I don't see how you proved or disproved this. >> >> Shall I resend the original message? It seems independent of any >> particular driver. That's not proof, of course, but I didn't claim >> it was. > > Greg: The busdma problems from 5.3-RELEASE are fixed. That doesn't > mean that there are no *other* problems. Scott is saying "the old > busdma bug shouldn't be affecting 5.4-PRE", and he's correct. Yes, now I understand. > Most likely, something else is happening, eg: you're running out of KVM > or something silly like that. I know we're right on the brink at 8GB. > The layout of the devices may be just enough to tip it over the edge. Yes, this seems reasonable. Where should I look next? I'm currently rebuilding world and will attempt a verbose boot via serial console when it's done. Anything else I should try? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCSzjCIubykFB6QiMRAtlJAJ43Etwpf1ha/R0v82fiwc8Xc3hvFgCfQOsb xoGRrstX3t3lfBLP8vD7Qz0= =9O6g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC--