Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:32:24 -0400 From: "Ken Menzel" <kenfreebsd@icarz.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Jeremy Bogan" <jeremy@segpub.com.au> Subject: Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE Message-ID: <0c2a01c53abd$d9556750$8adb7bd1@icarz.com> References: <e5049e166f2132aacbc1f439966e58b4@segpub.com.au>
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from "man aac" BUGS section (near the bottom): This driver will not work on systems with more than 4GB of memory. My comment: If you want more than 4G with aac controller try FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Bogan" <jeremy@segpub.com.au> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: 4.11-STABLE/PAE > Hiya, > > We've recently loaded FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE with PAE support onto one > of our brand new Dell PowerEdge 2650's. The box has 6GB RAM and > with PAE support compiled into our kernel can see it all fine. > However when we start doing disk intensive stuff like compiling, > our RAID appears to spack out and cause the system to freeze and > require a reboot. When logging in via console we see: > > aac0: COMMAND TIMEOUT AFTER 1540 SECONDS > > repeated continuously. > > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz > (3050.63-MHz 686-class CPU) > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 > Stepping = 9 > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE > ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: real memory = 6442450944 (6291456K > bytes) > Apr 5 22:10:24 luke1 /kernel: avail memory = 6000644096 (5860004K > bytes) > > When disabling PAE support everything appears to be perfectly fine, > but we're only able to address 4GB out of our 6GB. Just wondering > if anyone else has experienced this or has any insight. > > The system is running RAID5 with 4 x 73GB SCSI drives: > > Apr 5 22:30:03 luke1 /kernel: aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Di> mem > 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 16 at device 8.1 on pci4 > Apr 5 22:30:03 luke1 /kernel: aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 118MB cache > memory, optional battery present > Apr 5 22:30:03 luke1 /kernel: aac0: Kernel 2.8-0, Build 6092, S/N > 64a1d3 > Apr 5 22:30:03 luke1 /kernel: aac0: Supported > Options=275c<WCACHE,DATA64,HOSTTIME,WINDOW4GB,SOFTERR,NORECOND,SGMAP64> > > Thanks :) > > -- > jeremy bogan [ jeremy@segpub.com.au ] > segment publishing - design.develop.host > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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