From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 16:03:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57AB16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:03:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7164243D58 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:03:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.21] (rat.samsco.home [192.168.254.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j34G6xg8042459; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:06:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <425164FD.1040306@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:02:05 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424E1E15.1040503@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: FreeBSD-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no) Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:03:59 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005, at 11:22 PM, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: > >> I installed 5.4 beta 1 amd64 on a 8 GB Tyan Thunder K8W with two 244 >> CPUs. It's been looping on buildworld for about 60 hours, no problems. >> > > can you see what happens when you run very heavy network I/O through > it? I assume it has a bge network interface. I experience severe > lockups and/or timeouts every few days on a K8SR board. > > > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. > +1-301-869-4449 x806 > What network interfaces do you use? Scott