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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:46:55 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM
Message-ID:  <1287438415.6951.4.camel@home-yahoo>
In-Reply-To: <4CBCBC53.8030205@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <4CB8E6AC.8070301@icyb.net.ua>  <4CBCBC53.8030205@icyb.net.ua>

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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 14:29 -0700, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 16/10/2010 02:41 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > on 15/10/2010 19:04 Sean Bruno said the following:
> >> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64
> >> version up and running.
> >>
> >> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is
> >> having issues with >32GB of RAM in this box.
> >>
> >> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs?
> 
> So, just in case:
> 
> > Is there anything else peculiar about this system besides RAM?
> 

Looking over the DL980, it's 64 core w/HT, 10G ethernet and apparently
is throwing Machine Check Exceptions very hard.

http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/dl980_Machcheck_exceptions.png

Sean




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