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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:21:46 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        sbruno@freebsd.org
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM
Message-ID:  <20101016222146.GA70296@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <1287258720.2522.26.camel@home-yahoo>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > 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, the=
n 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 descr=
ibe,
> > > > as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experien=
ce
> > > > 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 no=
w=20
> > > 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to=
=20
> > > the amount of memory.
> > >=20
> > > -Boris
> > > __________
> >=20
> > Edge case at 64G perhaps?  That's the minimum you can get in the HP
> > DL980 apparently.
> >=20
> > Sean
>=20
> Hrm, no success today setting available RAM to 32G and reducing the
> number of processors to 8.
>=20
> I've disabled and tweaked pretty much everything available to me here
> and have tried to boot up the fbsd 8 install media with the same result
> as using the fbsd 7 media:  Repeated and continuous panics on all
> processors simultaneously after selecting install method from the boot
> menu.
>=20
> Not sure what to do at this point to get the system up and running.
> Suggestions?

I can say it's not the RAM amount since I'm running 8 on:

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz (2261.01-MHz K8-class =
CPU)
  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x106a5  Family =3D 6  Model =3D 1a  St=
epping =3D 5
  Features=3D0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG=
E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=3D0x9ce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,P=
DCM,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT>
  AMD Features=3D0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
  AMD Features2=3D0x1<LAHF>
  TSC: P-state invariant
real memory  =3D 77310459904 (73729 MB)
avail memory =3D 74596175872 (71140 MB)

-- Brooks

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