Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:35:20 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: FreeBSD-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no) Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? Message-ID: <fe4ac48787613056a82e4f7350f7a0e1@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <425164FD.1040306@samsco.org> References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424E1E15.1040503@jrv.org> <f41aa8fd2c11999a08acbbf6287309f6@khera.org> <425164FD.1040306@samsco.org>
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On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Scott Long wrote: > 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? Right now I have the on-board Broadcom: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> mem 0xfc9b0000-0xfc9bffff,0xfc9c0000-0xfc9cffff irq 24 at device 9.0 on pci3 miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0 brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto However, my vendor is shipping me an Intel NIC card to try to see if that is really the problem. but given another post on freebsd-amd64 list, I am now suspecting a PCI-x bus timing fault on the S2881 motherboard. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806
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