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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:28:04 -0700
From:      Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com>
To:        Jean Lagarde <jlagarde@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)
Message-ID:  <dc9ba04405031612286f51890f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com>
References:  <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com>

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I would have to agree that it is a HW issue.  The RAM itself may be
ok, but may have issues with other HW components in your system.

--Nick


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:10:27 -0800, Jean Lagarde <jlagarde@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I
> might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details)
> 
> The problem seems to be with trying to run with 1.5GB vice 512MB of RAM.
> The system has not had problems so far when I only leave the 512MB stick
> in. When I add the 1GB stick the system will reboot at specific times,
> for example, while trying to launch KDE3 or trying to make OpenOffice
> (always reboots at "Extracting for openoffice-1.1.2-1"). I do not see
> any panic in the messages log, the system just silently reboots.
> 
> I initially installed FreeBSD with only the 512MB stick in.
> 
> The memory itself seems fine; memtest86 detects no errors.
> 
> At boot time all the memory is detected:
> 
> real memory  = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
> avail memory = 1568432128 (1495 MB)
> 
> Running "memtest all" only seems to find 512MB to use. It evidently
> makes no assumption about how much memory is there, starting by trying
> to malloc 4GB and reducing the amount gradually until it finally
> successfully mallocs 512 MB and eventually manages to lock 413 MB
> (failed due to "insufficient resources" above that). The tests on the
> 413 MB do pass.
> 
> I have rebuilt the kernel with VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=419430400 as suggested
> in the FAQ. No change.
> 
> Would setting MAXMEM to 1572864 help? I am not sure since the correct
> amount is reported by FreeBSD at boot, and right now trying to make the
> kernel with that option seems to be another case that reboots the
> machine (i.e. the make process itself reboots the machine) so I have not
> tried it yet (guess I would have to remove the 1GB  stick to make the
> new kernel and then put it back to try it out).
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> 
> ============
> dmesg
> ============
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Sun Mar 13 20:01:36 PST 2005
>     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERNEL_JEAN
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz (2205.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf24  Stepping = 4
> 
> Features=0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
> MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
> real memory  = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
> avail memory = 1568432128 (1495 MB)
> mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: .\M^K\M-@
> npx0: [FAST]
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> acpi0: <SOYO AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
> acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port
> 0x1080-0x10ff,0x1000-0x107f,0x480-0x48f,0xcf8
> -0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <SiS 645 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device
> 0.0 on pc
> i0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> ohci0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xe7000000-0xe7000fff irq 5 at
> device 2.2 o
> n pci0
> ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> usb0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
> ohci1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xe7001000-0xe7001fff irq 12 at
> device 2.3
> on pci0
> ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> usb1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
> atapci0: <SiS 961 UDMA100 controller> port
> 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6
> ,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 2.5 on pci0
> ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
> ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
> sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
> 0xe7002000-0xe7002fff irq 11
>  at device 3.0 on pci0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> sis0: Ethernet address: 00:50:2c:04:6c:0b
> pci0: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
> acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> ppc0: parallel port not found.
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio1: port may not be enabled
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2205013308 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ad0: 39216MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0/A1Y.1300> [79677/16/63] at
> ata0-master UD
> MA100
> acd0: DVDROM <Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 0122/E1.22> at
> ata0-slave UDMA
> 66
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> 
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