From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 08:21:49 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 7C83416A4CE; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:21:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D5643D45; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:21:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=ganbold.micom.mng.net) by publicd.ub.mng.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CNS3p-000803-5B; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:24:37 +0800 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20041029161024.02b5c460@202.179.0.80> X-Sender: ganbold@micom.mng.net@202.179.0.80 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:20:04 +0900 To: Scott Long From: Ganbold In-Reply-To: <4181F8AF.8030800@freebsd.org> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80> <20041029033416.GC13963@dragon.nuxi.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041029115322.02b43510@202.179.0.80> <4181F8AF.8030800@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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 08:21:49 -0000 At 05:00 PM 10/29/2004, you wrote: >>>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? >> >>Scott didn't tell me. So I thought it is clean. Maybe now he will confirm it. >>I'm cc-ing to him. >>Ganbold > > >The ips driver looks like it will fail under heavy load when more than 4GB >of RAM is present. I tries to force busdma to not defer requests >when the bounce page reserve is low, but that looks to be broken and >will result in corrupted commands. Thanks Scott. I tried to compile kernel several different way, tried different RAM configurations and no result. With 8GB file system gets corrupted and after several boot file system becomes in unusable state. Scott, when ips driver will be fixed? Will it be ready when 5.3 release comes out? Please let me know. I'm ready to test. thanks, Ganbold >Scott > > > >__________ NOD32 1.911 (20041029) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.nod32.com >