From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 14:28:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B5C106567B for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 14:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (myrtle.kcilink.com [66.250.193.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E968FC18 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 14:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from host-121.int.kcilink.com (host-121.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.121]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D4E8A172; Wed, 21 May 2008 10:13:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera To: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: <20080521080156.209010@gmx.net> X-Priority: 3 References: <20080521080156.209010@gmx.net> Message-Id: <96861789-550A-4F0B-A3AE-AC8538D125DC@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:13:09 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and > 2GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:28:58 -0000 On May 21, 2008, at 4:01 AM, votdev@gmx.de wrote: > some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant > reboots on systems with > 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot > occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them > told me that they can boot if they reduce RAM to <= 2GB. For what it's worth, I have run several systems with 4GB RAM on FreeBSD/i386 6.3. The only i386 I have left with this much RAM was recently upgraded to 7.0; the rest of my large RAM systems run FreeBSD/ amd64. I didn't see anything obviously bad in your kernel config. By the way, thanks for making FreeNAS... I use it on my home NFS/AFP server to great success... the only thing I wish it included was the amrstat binary to test my LSI RAID controller status (I just copy it from another 6.3 system I have and it works).