Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:32:04 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: "Christian R." <cr@it.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory handling problem with FreeBSD 5.3? Message-ID: <41D368A4.1030408@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2rg6t0ll6th99497btiu13foetanfrn0gr@4ax.com> References: <2rg6t0ll6th99497btiu13foetanfrn0gr@4ax.com>
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Christian R. wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850, > but it crashes under load like "make buildworld" with a "panic: page > fault". > > The server has following configuration: 2x Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz (800 MHz > FSB), 6x 1 GB DDR2 ECC RAM and Perc 4e/Di (LSI Logic/amr driver). > > After some days working on the problem, I think there is some problem > with handling the memory. The only way I have got the server to become > stable was by switching a special option in the Dell BIOS, which > limits the system memory to 256 MB. > > I have tried to limit the memory to 4 GB by activating a spare memory > bank, but the server still crashes. Disabling HTT in BIOS and ACPI in > the loader also didn't solved the problem. > > The kernel is compiled with SMP of course and PAE because of >4 GB > memory. I have removed all the unnecessary devices. > > Dells own diagnostic tool couldn't find any hardware errors. The > special memory test also passed all tests. I have also tried with > memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) which either could find any memory > errors. > > Has anyone an idea to a solution? Has anyone succeeded running FreeBSD > 5.3 on similar hardware? > > Would it maybe be better to run the AMD64 version of FreeBSD 5.3? I > think the i386 version should be more stable? > Upgrade to 5-STABLE. I fixed these problems a few weeks ago. Scott
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