Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-19 Thread Paul Saab
Mike Silbersack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Some of the kernel autoscaling values may be off with 4GB machines; I > believe that this has been fixed with 4.9, so running 4.9-RC3 might be the > easiest answer. Yes, there are issues at exactly 4GB which were fixed at USENIX in san antonio.

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > Hi: > > I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found > kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with > only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like > the "high mem" option in Linu

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Scott M. Likens
I believe this falls under PAE with 4.9 or 5.1. I'm not aware if 4.9 is currently released due to me not tracking it really. But I am aware 5.1 does have PAE and that does support 4gb+ Regards, Scott --On Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:03 PM -0400 Yaoping Ruan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi:

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Miklos Niedermayer
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:17:50PM -0400, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > Hi, Miklos: > > Thanks for the message. > Do you mean maybe the problem is caused by a RAID? But the box doesn't have a > RAID, only a single ATA Seagate 120GB. > The difference between the current running box and the crashed one is

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Yaoping Ruan
Hi, Miklos: Thanks for the message. Do you mean maybe the problem is caused by a RAID? But the box doesn't have a RAID, only a single ATA Seagate 120GB. The difference between the current running box and the crashed one is the memory size. - Yaoping Miklos Niedermayer wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, O

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Miklos Niedermayer
Hi, On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:03:53PM -0400, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found > kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with > only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like > the "high me

High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Yaoping Ruan
Hi: I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like the "high mem" option in Linux? BTW, we also tried 4.6 release, didn't have this p