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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:09:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "David C. Snyder" <dsnyder@web.turner.com>
Cc:        Phil Rosenthal <winter@villaweb.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dell 4350 SMP faults
Message-ID:  <20020123130842.R56623-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020123142149.U1006-100000@dcs-vaio.turner.com>

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, David C. Snyder wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
>
> > Unrelated, but possibly related:
> >
> > I have a problem that all my Dell 1550's crash when they have 2GB of
> > ram, but are stable with 1GB of ram, the exact same kernel works
> > fine on a STL2 with 2GB of ram.
>
> We've seen the same symptom on a Dell PowerEdge 1550.  In our case, we
> upgraded the RAM from 768 MB to 2 GB without increasing swap space.
> We only have 1 GB of swap.  I assumed that this was part of the
> problem since the boot messages had something to do with swap or
> virtual memory.

You have the same problem someone else in the list has -- you have
maxusers too high. Drop maxusers to 128 and make sure you're running a
recent -STABLE.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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