Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:38:17 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM Message-ID: <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> In-Reply-To: <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu>
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On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:30 -0700, Boris Kochergin wrote: > On 10/15/10 12:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64 > >> version up and running. > >> > >> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is > >> having issues with>32GB of RAM in this box. > >> > >> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs? > > If you booted a FreeBSD image that has "amd64" in the ISO name, then the > > kernel is actually 64-bit (amd64). The only i386 piece would be the > > bootloader. > > > > There's probably someone here who can help with the issue you describe, > > as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experience > > issues/problems when using very large amounts of RAM. > > > I've got an amd64 machine with 48 GB of RAM that has run 7, 8, and now > 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to > the amount of memory. > > -Boris > __________ Edge case at 64G perhaps? That's the minimum you can get in the HP DL980 apparently. Sean
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