From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 18:35:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32341106568D; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6808FC17; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id UAA07753; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:35:02 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4B72FC55.2090508@icyb.net.ua> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:35:01 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <4B72D94A.8030509@icyb.net.ua> <4B72E93C.80102@icyb.net.ua> <9bbcef731002101003r203f5189xf139700a0d48afa0@mail.gmail.com> <4B72F67F.4000209@icyb.net.ua> <9bbcef731002101026k5007075cqf97fc80404ac3fa7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef731002101026k5007075cqf97fc80404ac3fa7@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:35:05 -0000 on 10/02/2010 20:26 Ivan Voras said the following: > On 10 February 2010 19:10, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 10/02/2010 20:03 Ivan Voras said the following: >>> When you say "very unique" is it in the "it is not Linux or Windows" >>> sense or do we do something nonstandard? >> The former - neither Linux, Windows or OpenSolaris seem to have what we have. > > I can't find the exact documents but I think both Windows > MegaUltimateServer (the highest priced version of Windows Server, > whatever it's called today) and Linux (though disabled and marked > Experimental) have it, or have some kind of support for large pages > that might not be as pervasive (maybe they use it for kernel only?). I > have no idea about (Open)Solaris. I haven't said that those OSes do not use large pages. I've said what I've said :-) -- Andriy Gapon