Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:46:55 -0000 From: "Alan Jay" <alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk> To: <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: "'Jonathan A. Dama'" <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> Subject: RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard Message-ID: <20050215174717.0630443D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050215172530.GC38158@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -0000, Alan Jay wrote: > > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to > stable > > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > > databases (mySQL) one is reasonably heavily used and one very extensively > > used. > > Just to be clear, you're stating you had stability problems with > 5.3-RELEASE and >4GB. But with 5.3-STABLE and >4GB you have a stable > system. Correct? [Alan Jay] I could not install with RELEASE but could with Stable. Once installed and running we installed mySQL on the two machines one we copied over a relatively simple database which ran fine without a problem. The second machine then had another mySQL database moved to it and it started to fall over. After a number of tests we moved the first database off the what had been working server and put the other database on it. At which point that server which had been stable fell over! > > I think I agree wholeheartedly with your comments being a great supporter > of > > FreeBSD it is a shame that the AMD release is not as super as the other > > versions we have used extensively. > > The problem is a major bug that has existed since FreeBSD ?3.0? was > exposed very close to the 5.3 release cycle. This bug only causes a > major problem with >4GB, thus few of us developers experienced it. > [Most of us can't afford >4GB in our machines. Donations of 1GB DIMMs > for FreeBSD developers are accepted by donations@FreeBSD.org.] [Alan Jay] I'll put them on my present list :) > Of course one reason many are moving to the AMD64 platform is to have > >4GB RAM in the machine. We believe this bug has been fixed in > 5.3-STABLE. But too few people are testing 5.3-STABLE and are using > 5.3-RELEASE instead. This isn't helping us QA the issue so that we know > all the corner cases are fixed in upcoming 5.4 release. [Alan Jay] Well the memory seemed to be stable on 5.3 STABLE with more than 4Gb in our case 8Gb there seems to be some other problem at work here. > A recent 5.3-STABLE snapshot can be found as > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Feb_2005/5.3-STABLE-SNAP001- > amd64-miniinst.iso > and mirrors. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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