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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:31:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problems with 2.2.2-RELEASE and more than 64 MB of main memory?
Message-ID:  <199711211231.NAA14339@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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I run 2.2.2-RELEASE on a 128 MB / AMD K6-233 machine. To make use of
more than 64 MB memory, I added

options        MAXMEM=131072           #Memory size

to the kernel configuration file before creating the custom kernel.

Now I've serious problems concerning the stability of the system.
If there's load on the system, it crashes from time to time.
I increased the memory access time from 60 ns to 70 ns in the BIOS
setup - no change.

So I started the system in single user mode many times and ran a
simple test program included here (after setting the datasize process
limit to unlimited):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define MEGABYTE  1048576
#define MEMBLOCK  1 * MEGABYTE

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char *buffer;
  long i;
  long memsize = MEMBLOCK;

  while (buffer = malloc(memsize)) {
    memset(buffer, 0, memsize);
    for (i = 0; i < memsize; ++i)
      if (*(buffer + i))
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: read error at: %x (%d)\n", argv[0], i, i);
    printf("%s: %4d MB\n", argv[0], memsize / MEGABYTE);
    free(buffer);
    memsize += MEMBLOCK;
  }
}

In the range above about 75 MB memory allocated and used, the kernel
panics. Error messages are like this:

vm_page_free: pindex(16415), busy(0), PG_BUSY(0), hold(0)
panic: vm_page_free: freeing busy page

As soon as I omit the `options MAXMEM' line in the kernel configuration
file and thus only use 64 MB of main memory, the system works very fine.

So - I'm not sure: Is possibly one of my four SIMM modules (each 32 MB)
physically defect, or is there a problem with the kernel and more than
64 MB?

Thanks for any answer
Konrad Heuer (kheuer@gwdg.de)

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