From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 18:18:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACF816A40F for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:18:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (relay0.rambler.ru [81.19.66.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F4B43DE1 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:13:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3686037; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:13:50 +0300 (MSK) Received: from edoofus.park.rambler.ru (unknown [81.19.65.108]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB0B6031; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:13:50 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.park.rambler.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) id kADIDuvS065509; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:13:56 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:13:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Sulev-Madis Silber Message-ID: <20061113181356.GA65354@rambler-co.ru> References: <45584912.5050503@hot.ee> <20061113113134.GD25008@rambler-co.ru> <455884FF.1000304@hot.ee> <20061113164548.GA47901@rambler-co.ru> <4558AFE1.2020406@hot.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4558AFE1.2020406@hot.ee> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: No virus found Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:18:19 -0000 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:48:17PM +0200, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote: > Strange :) I managed to boot... 6.2-BETA3 >=20 > If anyone cares how it looked like: > http://viki.life.ee/~ketas/celebris-6.2-beta3.log >=20 > And sorry about wrong output, I thought you meant just a SMAP. >=20 There's no "giving up"=A0message in the output you quoted; this message is displayed when there's a high number of physical memory chunks (more than 16 for FreeBSD6/i386). Normally, a number of chunks would be equal to the number of non-intersecting SMAP type=3D01 (RAM) chunks, which is far below this point in your casse. Another reason to get a high number of chunks is =66rom probing the memory (the first byte of each physical page excluding kernel space is written in four different ways, and if it doesn't read what it wrote it would result in a memory gap and as a consequence a new element in the physical map array). If you SOMETIMES get this message, this could be indicative of either bad memory or bad memory-related options in the BIOS. Boot it several times and make sure that the message never shows up. If later you'll get random kernel/userland traps this could also be indicative of bad memory. HTH. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWLXkqRfpzJluFF4RAn2qAJ9glubucXzUkk9+XLFxCzrAVFMqCgCeMf0K 70LghTgVK5ZVZ8NITQl74t4= =NXbW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--