From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 13:22:55 2004 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 5002816A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta1.siol.net (pegasus.siol.net [193.189.160.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5AF43D4C for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:22:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomaz.borstnar@over.net) Received: from edge1.siol.net ([10.10.10.210]) by mta1.siol.net with ESMTP id <20041101132251.XUNT8856.mta1.siol.net@edge1.siol.net> for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:22:51 +0100 Received: from game.over.net ([193.189.169.9]) by edge1.siol.net with ESMTP id <20041101132250.DXRA3658.edge1.siol.net@game.over.net> for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:22:50 +0100 Received: from BSN-77-70-7.dsl.siol.net ([193.77.70.7]:20365 "EHLO zvezek.over.net") by game.over.net with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:22:41 +0100 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041101141735.0cf68bc0@193.189.169.9> X-Sender: tmail@193.189.169.9 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:22:59 +0100 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org From: Tomaz Borstnar 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-OverNet-MailScanner-Information: Contact mailscanner@over.net for more information X-OverNet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-OverNet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.192, required 5, BAYES_00 -4.90, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 1.71) X-MailScanner-From: tomaz.borstnar@over.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.2GHz with 8GB 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, 01 Nov 2004 13:22:55 -0000 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