On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:32:04 -0700, you wrote: >Christian R. wrote: >> I have installed FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850, >> but it crashes under load like "make buildworld" with a "panic: page >> fault". >> >> The server has following configuration: 2x Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz (800 MHz >> FSB), 6x 1 GB DDR2 ECC RAM and Perc 4e/Di (LSI Logic/amr driver). >> >> After some days working on the problem, I think there is some problem >> with handling the memory. The only way I have got the server to become >> stable was by switching a special option in the Dell BIOS, which >> limits the system memory to 256 MB. >> >> I have tried to limit the memory to 4 GB by activating a spare memory >> bank, but the server still crashes. Disabling HTT in BIOS and ACPI in >> the loader also didn't solved the problem. >> >> The kernel is compiled with SMP of course and PAE because of >4 GB >> memory. I have removed all the unnecessary devices. >> >> Dells own diagnostic tool couldn't find any hardware errors. The >> special memory test also passed all tests. I have also tried with >> memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) which either could find any memory >> errors. >> >> Has anyone an idea to a solution? Has anyone succeeded running FreeBSD >> 5.3 on similar hardware? >> >> Would it maybe be better to run the AMD64 version of FreeBSD 5.3? I >> think the i386 version should be more stable? >> > >Upgrade to 5-STABLE. I fixed these problems a few weeks ago.
I already have done that. I'm using RELENG_5 "5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Tue Dec 28 17:56:04 CET 2004" Setting hw.physmem=3G at boot time has also made the system stable, but I want to use all of the memory. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
