From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 10:14:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6C5106564A for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis.nikiforov@gmail.com) Received: from ns1.torqhost.com (ns1.torqhost.com [212.47.209.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1098FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [80.79.112.253] (helo=[10.0.1.8]) by ns1.torqhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJZ1-0007gP-8Y; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:14:15 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Dennis Nikiforov In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:14:37 +0300 Message-Id: <209FDCEC-0335-4C1D-9974-ACB2BCFDEC28@gmail.com> References: To: krad X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE: Cannot fork X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:14:40 -0000 There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit = systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: >=20 >=20 > On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov = wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard = PAE kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed = like this have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue = because all memory tests have been negative. >=20 > basically the issue comes after PAE kernel has been compiled = and the system outputs all the time the following: >=20 > cannot fork kstack allocation failed or vm_thread_new: kstack = allocation failed >=20 > Since, this is a dell server there is basically nothing that I = can disable in BIOS, so perhaps someone knows what loader options do I = need to tweak the kernel and stop this from happening. >=20 > Thanks, > Dennis_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20 > why not use 64 bit as the r210 should be capable