From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 22 19:40: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE73010EEC for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05604 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:39:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:39:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199902230339.EAA05604@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA DMA problems if >= 512 Mb RAM? Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Nobis wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > [...] > I have a P2B-DS with 512 M Ram and AWE64 > > Until today I had the same problem. Today I build a new kernel and now > the problem ist gone. Did you change anything significant in your kernel config? Maybe you threw some drivers away which made the kernel take up less memory? Can you send a diff of your dmesg output from before (when the problem still existed) and after (when it went away), please? > real memory = 536870912 (524288K bytes) > avail memory = 519380992 (507208K bytes) I'm specifically interested in these two lines. ;-) I'd be very happy if the problem is really fixed... However, this is a production machine, so going to 4.0-current is not what I intended... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message