From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 13:14:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E2137B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.berkeley.netdot.net (carbon.berkeley.netdot.net [216.27.190.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA3543E65 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@netdot.net) Received: by carbon.berkeley.netdot.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 0EE58F84E; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:14:41 -0700 From: Nicholas Esborn To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Practical limit for pre-loaded md_image size? Message-ID: <20020922201441.GB54982@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> References: <20020922081120.GA54982@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> <20020922181917.GB46345@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20020922181917.GB46345@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've tried this on two machines: 1 4.7-RC w/ 512 MB of RAM 2 5.0-CURRENT w/ 256 MB of RAM Both behave the same way with a ~128MB md_image. -nick On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:19:18AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:11:20AM -0700, Nicholas Esborn wrote: > > Hello, > >=20 > > I've been trying to boot a kernel and a preloaded md_image of about 128= MB. > >=20 > > The kernel and image load, and then about a quarter of a second after t= he > > kernel executes, before any text even prints, the machine reboots. > >=20 > > Has anyone had better luck with large md_image root filesystems? >=20 > You forgot to mention how much RAM you have, and what FreeBSD version. >=20 > Kris --=20 Nicholas Esborn Unix Systems Administrator Berkeley, California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message