From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Aug 24 02:01:14 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E04016A4CE
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:01:14 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from daintree.corp.yahoo.com (daintree.corp.yahoo.com
	[216.145.52.172])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D77443D2D
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:01:14 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from peter@yahoo-inc.com)
Received: by daintree.corp.yahoo.com (Postfix, from userid 2154)
	id 39DE28803; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:01:13 -0700
User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2
References: <20040823230619.GB41337@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040823230619.GB41337@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200408231901.13938.peter@wemm.org>
cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: AMD64 VM panic with >8 GB memory
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:01:14 -0000

On Monday 23 August 2004 04:06 pm, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Some relevant info.  The motherboard is a Tyan K8S Pro
> (S2882) with 12 GB of PC2700 ECC memory.  If I limit
> the memory by setting 'hw.physmem="8G"' in the loader
> or in /boot/loader.conf, then the system boots fine.
> Any other setting above 8G will result in the above panic.
>
> The panic occurs too earlier to get a crash dump.
> However, I'm will to try any patch or settings.

Hmm.  I think we had an amd64 machine around somewhere at work that had 
16G of ram.  I'll ask what happened to it and see if it can be 
recovered to sort this out.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5