Hello all. Today I replaced OpenSuSE with OpenBSD 5.0 on my HP ML 570 G2 server. The system includes to memory boards for RAM. One board has 8 gigs, and the other has 4. The power on self test sees 12 and initializes 12, but after the server boots, OpenBSD appears to only see 4. I believe this relates to 32 vs 64 bit, but I'm not positive.
The version I installed was i386, not amd64. The processors are Xeon MP 2.2Ghz which only have 32 bit instruction sets, which is why I chose i386. Here is a link to the processor specs that show this: http://ark.intel.com/products/27300/Intel-Xeon-Processor-2_20-GHz-2M-Cache-400-MHz-FSB The FAQ mentions a trick for utilizing more RAM when all of the RAM isn't seen using boot.conf at this link: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstProb However, this is for such a small amount of RAM in the given example, that I'm not sure this would work for me. Can anyone confirm that I'm pretty much stuck with only being able to utilize 1/3 of the full potential, or whether the above trick might actually work (using appropriate size values, of course)? Thanks for any help on this! Stefan Johnson Below is dmesg and sysctl output for my box with the GENERIC MP kernel: OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #59: Wed Aug 17 10:19:44 MDT 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR real mem = 4026036224 (3839MB) avail mem = 3950120960 (3767MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 12/31/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0000, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xec000 (92 entries) bios0: vendor HP version "P32" date 04/26/2005 bios0: HP ProLiant ML570 G2 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S4 S5, can't enable ACPI mpbios0 at bios0: Intel MP Specification 1.4 cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 4 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz cpu2: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 6 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz cpu3: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR mpbios0: bus 0 is type PCI mpbios0: bus 1 is type PCI mpbios0: bus 5 is type PCI mpbios0: bus 9 is type PCI mpbios0: bus 13 is type PCI mpbios0: bus 16 is type ISA ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 16 pins ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 9 pa 0xfec01000, version 11, 16 pins ioapic2 at mainbus0: apid 10 pa 0xfec02000, version 11, 16 pins ioapic3 at mainbus0: apid 11 pa 0xfec03000, version 11, 16 pins bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x4000! 0xee000/0x2000! pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks CMIC-HE" rev 0x22 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "ServerWorks CMIC-HE" rev 0x00 pci1 at pchb1 bus 1 ppb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "IBM 133 PCIX-PCIX" rev 0x03 pci2 at ppb0 bus 2 ciss0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Compaq Smart Array 64xx" rev 0x01: apic 8 int 15 ciss0: 3 LDs, HW rev 1, FW 2.84/2.84, 64bit fifo scsibus0 at ciss0: 3 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HP, LOGICAL VOLUME, 2.84> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 69459MB, 512 bytes/sector, 142253280 sectors sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <HP, LOGICAL VOLUME, 2.84> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 70001MB, 512 bytes/sector, 143363040 sectors sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <HP, LOGICAL VOLUME, 2.84> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 140006MB, 512 bytes/sector, 286734240 sectors "Compaq PCI Hotplug" rev 0x14 at pci1 dev 30 function 0 not configured pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "ServerWorks CMIC-HE" rev 0x00 pci3 at pchb2 bus 9 "Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy LS" rev 0x00 at pci3 dev 1 function 0 not configured pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "ServerWorks CMIC-HE" rev 0x00 "Compaq Netelligent ASMC" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured fxp0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: apic 8 int 10, address 00:12:79:cc:74:78 inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "ServerWorks CSB5" rev 0x93: polling iic0 at piixpm0 pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "ServerWorks CSB5 IDE" rev 0x93: DMA atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <LITE-ON, CD-ROM LTN-487T, 6QG7> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: no compatibility interrupt for use by channel 1 pchb4 at pci0 dev 15 function 3 "ServerWorks CSB5 LPC" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "ServerWorks CIOB30" rev 0x03 pchb6 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "ServerWorks CIOB30" rev 0x03 pci4 at pchb6 bus 5 re0 at pci4 dev 2 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: RTL8110S (0x0400), apic 8 int 11, address 00:22:3f:e8:79:5b rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0 "Compaq PCI Hotplug" rev 0x14 at pci4 dev 30 function 0 not configured pchb7 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ServerWorks CIOB30" rev 0x03 pchb8 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "ServerWorks CIOB30" rev 0x03 pci5 at pchb8 bus 13 ppb1 at pci5 dev 1 function 0 "Intel S21152BB PCI-PCI" rev 0x00 pci6 at ppb1 bus 14 vga1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Rage XL" rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) "Compaq Netelligent ASMC" rev 0x00 at pci6 dev 1 function 0 not configured vendor "Compaq", unknown product 0x005a (class memory subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x00) at pci6 dev 2 function 0 not configured vendor "Compaq", unknown product 0x00b1 (class memory subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x01) at pci6 dev 4 function 0 not configured isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (3b06e6767156265a.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b hw.machine=i386 hw.model=Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) hw.ncpu=4 hw.byteorder=1234 hw.pagesize=4096 hw.disknames=sd0:3b06e6767156265a,sd1:81b9038bd79d711c,sd2:ba83b2167d3fe073,cd0: hw.diskcount=4 hw.cpuspeed=2196 hw.setperf=100 hw.vendor=HP hw.product=ProLiant ML570 G2 hw.uuid=45413034-4c46-595a-3456-202020202020 hw.physmem=4026036224 hw.usermem=4025827328 hw.ncpufound=4 hw.allowpowerdown=1
