From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 18:43:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23AE16A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:43:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tspencer@hungry.com) Received: from terror.hungry.com (terror.hungry.com [199.181.107.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA8943D58 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:43:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tspencer@hungry.com) Received: from [10.251.17.233] (nat.ironport.com [63.251.108.100]) (AUTH: LOGIN tspencer, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-SHA) by terror.hungry.com with esmtp; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:43:33 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060207175011.B53605@mgmt.uniserve.ca> References: <5EE96EFA-FF04-4542-A5BF-F60F2EA78D52@hungry.com> <20060207175011.B53605@mgmt.uniserve.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3FFA16CC-470B-446D-BB73-1C8383E4601D@hungry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Tim Spencer Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:42:57 -0800 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: Speaking of Fibre-channel problems... X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:43:34 -0000 On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Tom Samplonius wrote: > This is interesting. Does it also happen with the 32bit version > of FreeBSD? Is it possibly a 4+GB RAM problem where the isp driver > has problems accessing high memory? You might want to try the > 32bit version, and limiting FreeBSD to 3.5GB of RAM. I've heard > that the mpt driver had (or still has) 4+GB memory problems. Yeah, I'll try that tomorrow (I've been railroaded into deploying a new product today), and let everybody know. It is an 8gb machine, so maybe there is some sort of high memory issue. If anybody else has any suggestions of how to poke at this, let me know. Have fun! -tspencer