From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 12:47:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6032F106566B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:47:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FED8FC1B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so1834947wwc.31 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:47:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=j1jyUgeSD1vwodqTleHh8Dvwmiuu2qdUtUOoFjmFfVc=; b=UXFXtLWJ7TWXuhhOTKAISL5TMw3qHT8W/o6k1VVKUPuMFumbSnqr2ziIel4kB8I/oK zlA3qtOopePsCS/m1S4BTc4niAI7Xw1ygwGdSrajE0pDhIESXZ1xP3REj7MdObSDAxqQ 2cgTj8WPRPkDCFsmBfCAQXLInu22yL7kJW8ys= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=lhhQJfcC0HOiAqNNROCBVX/KcdSSzVevcHUVzABiU3e2aMaU4RUNl15gKBeyKq7B0n gQfxwsY2c1rbqyaJJkcM058kXx4AJVYBV1v1iXBsq9LNUMjR9mY7rF1zO7WYdCuYDml2 +LwKYigHZBMb+EBjM7cBjEG9nlkUXw4l7L+o8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.239.130 with SMTP id c2mr726915wer.60.1302785228739; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.174.72 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:47:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <209FDCEC-0335-4C1D-9974-ACB2BCFDEC28@gmail.com> References: <209FDCEC-0335-4C1D-9974-ACB2BCFDEC28@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:47:08 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Dennis Nikiforov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE: Cannot fork X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:47:10 -0000 On 14 April 2011 11:14, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: > There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit > systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. > > On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: > > > > On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard PAE >> kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed like this >> have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue because all >> memory tests have been negative. >> >> basically the issue comes after PAE kernel has been compiled and >> the system outputs all the time the following: >> >> cannot fork kstack allocation failed or vm_thread_new: kstack >> allocation failed >> >> Since, this is a dell server there is basically nothing that I can >> disable in BIOS, so perhaps someone knows what loader options do I need to >> tweak the kernel and stop this from happening. >> >> Thanks, >> Dennis_______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > why not use 64 bit as the r210 should be capable > > > not even with lib32, also why not just not run pae. After all if its a 32bit app it cant address all the ram anyhow