Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:52:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Crist?v?o Dalla Costa <cbraga@desnormal.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly Message-ID: <20041209035217.GA7339@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br> References: <41B79A84.5010909@desnormal.com.br> <20041209003713.GA26248@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41B7A740.2040601@desnormal.com.br> <6.2.0.14.0.20041208201757.054b2bc8@64.7.153.2> <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0200, Crist?v?o Dalla Costa wrote: > Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the > BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a > core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half > the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition > with at least the same size, and I don't have the time to fiddle with > partitions now. You can limit the amount of RAM used by the system at boot time with the hw.physmem tunable, set in /boot/loader.conf. Set it to something smaller than your largest swap partition and dump there. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBt8vxWry0BWjoQKURAqjlAKCMu8QUGWrXed5JXf/oMH08s9EqywCfYmvb ao6vfTyDB5Sh11O/l7cgsfQ= =+RyX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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