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Date:      Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:22:59 +0100
From:      Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.2GHz with 8GB RAM
Message-ID:  <6.1.2.0.0.20041101141735.0cf68bc0@193.189.169.9>
In-Reply-To: <4181F8AF.8030800@freebsd.org>
References:  <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80> <20041029033416.GC13963@dragon.nuxi.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041029115322.02b43510@202.179.0.80> <4181F8AF.8030800@freebsd.org>

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At 09:00 29.10.2004, Scott Long wrote:

>The ips driver looks like it will fail under heavy load when more than 4GB 
>of RAM is present.  I tries to force busdma to not defer requests
>when the bounce page reserve is low, but that looks to be broken and
>will result in corrupted commands.

could this be the reason for my failure to install any FreeBSD 5.3 version 
to same type of machine (eserver 325) except with 5 gigs of RAM? When it 
appeared to be working it ALWYAS crashed while writing files to filesystem 
- UFS1, UFS2, softupdates - nothing changed this.

Tomaz 



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