Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:08:15 +0400 From: "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru> To: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>, <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE Message-ID: <001701c80690$029c15a0$0c00a8c0@Artem> References: <47039CB4.5040306@seclark.us> <4703C245.9000104@mac.com><4703C4FB.4030809@seclark.us> <4703C687.2010201@mac.com><4703D5B6.4070003@seclark.us> <fe0lhg$t21$1@sea.gmane.org><4704E87D.4020608@seclark.us> <b41c75520710040625ne39c96co39f07d4d166468d0@mail.gmail.com>
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Claus Guttesen wrote: >>>> Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? >>> >>> 1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of >>> memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that >>> many values) >>> 2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get >>> enough memory >>> 3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored >>> in kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot >>> of those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see >>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore >>> ZFS-specific things). >> It made no difference. Still the same error. >> >> Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found >> practically no information using >> google. We are using it on very heavy loaded production web server. 8GB of ram, dual xeon with HT. FreebSD 6-STABLE. about 900 process running constantly in about 20 jails. No problems detected :) Planning to migrate to 7-CURRENT AMD64 within a month. -- Regards, Artem
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