From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 09:39:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839F937B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 09:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D340443FA3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 09:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Holger.Kipp@alogis.com) Received: from intserv.int1.b.intern (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alogis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id h46GdYu60472; Tue, 6 May 2003 18:39:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hk@alogis.com) Message-Id: <200305061639.h46GdYu60472@alogis.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:39:29 +0000 From: Holger Kipp To: david@landgren.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: phpGroupWare (http://www.phpgroupware.org) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: Options available for using >4Gb RAM on x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Holger.Kipp@alogis.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:39:41 -0000 David Landgren (david@landgren.net) wrote: >I'm looking at replacing my Squid proxy hardware in the next month or >two. I'll be deploying a single processor (+HTT) HP DL-380 G3 with 6Gb >RAM and two RAID 1 volumes. I can't comment on 5.x, but I experienced some problems with the latest HP DL360G3, as the bios was changed lately to reduce fan noises, and then a OS-dependant health driver might be needed. Otherwise, the system will overheat and switch off without warning. A possible solution might be to reactivate fan hardware control (iirc there are some hardware switches) and/or go back to an older Firmware. For the DL 360 G3 we used SP23587.exe (ProLiant DL360 G3 ROM P31 (01/09/2003)) which worked. And don't forget to complain to HP ;-) >This uses (at least in 4.x) the bge network driver and the ciss SCSI >driver. Is this even reasonable to consider right now or are they >known to be completely untested? Regards, Holger Kipp