From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 03:34:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDCB16A4CE; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:34:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F1843D5F; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:34:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9T3YIqJ014406; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9T3YGe4014404; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ganbold Message-ID: <20041029033416.GC13963@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: scottl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.2GHz with 8GB RAM continues X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:34:19 -0000 On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:25:07AM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > >By chance, have you tried both with 4GB per CPU and with all 8GB on one > >CPU? Did it make a difference? > > With 4GB RAM I compiled kernel without ATA support and tried new kernel > with 8GB RAM. You definately don't want to use ATA, so it is good you compiled it out. It is felt by several of us that there is a problem with ATA in >4GB systems right now. Correct me if I'm wrong -- Scott Long verified that the driver for the IBM RAID controller you are using is 64-bit clean and has no known issues on >4GB systems? > I checked memory with memtest. No errors, passed everything. That is a good sign. :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)