Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Just for the records, I'm running my main OpenBSD on a P3-M 700MHz with 256M. With XFCE it works fine, and, as I understand from my linux experience, to run comfortably with KDE4 you today need something abobe 512M. As it was said, in OpenBSD memory evacuation works so pretty good that, in order

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread roberth
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:19:23 -0700 Clint Pachl wrote: > roberth wrote: > > omg, i am using 95% of my memory all the time, should i be worried? > > maybe kern.bufcachepercent=95 has something to do with it; blame > > Bob. > > Holy shit! Mine's at 10%. Maybe I should crank mine up to to 95% and

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Clint Pachl
roberth wrote: omg, i am using 95% of my memory all the time, should i be worried? maybe kern.bufcachepercent=95 has something to do with it; blame Bob. Holy shit! Mine's at 10%. Maybe I should crank mine up to to 95% and then buy more RAM.

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread roberth
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:46:08 -0700 Clint Pachl wrote: > Denise H. G. wrote: > >>> I've switched to FreeBSD for my desktop with 4G memory... > >>> > >> > > >> > Unnecessary fear : > >> > > >> > $ sysctl kern.version > >> > kern.version=OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #547: Tue Dec 7 >

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Clint Pachl
Denise H. G. wrote: I've switched to FreeBSD for my desktop with 4G memory... > > Unnecessary fear : > > $ sysctl kern.version > kern.version=OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #547: Tue Dec 7 23:16:34 MST 2010 > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2010/12/14 at 20:32, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Denise H. G. wrote: >> On 2010/12/14 at 02:45, Jeff Ross wrote: >>> >>> On 12/13/10 09:52, Nick Jones wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> FWIW, I'm running -current with BIG

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Denise H. G. wrote: > On 2010/12/14 at 02:45, Jeff Ross wrote: >> >> On 12/13/10 09:52, Nick Jones wrote: >>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: > FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's > running fine. B

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2010/12/14 at 02:45, Jeff Ross wrote: > > On 12/13/10 09:52, Nick Jones wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for ref

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-14 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2010/12/14 at 00:53, Nick Jones wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> > FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's >> > running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for >> > reference. >> > >> > Kernel is generic ot

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-13 Thread Jeff Ross
On 12/13/10 09:52, Nick Jones wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for reference. Kernel is generic otherwise, just renamed. Great!

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-13 Thread Nick Jones
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: > > FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's > > running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for > > reference. > > > > Kernel is generic otherwise, just renamed. > > > > Great! Did you recom

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-13 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2010/12/13 at 21:26, Nick Jones wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 at 20:29:58 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> On 2010/12/12 at 19:51, Martin Schrvder wrote: >> > >> > 2010/12/12 Predrag Punosevac : >> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127593716916639&w=1 >> > >> > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-m

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-13 Thread Nick Jones
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 at 20:29:58 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: > On 2010/12/12 at 19:51, Martin Schrvder wrote: > > > > 2010/12/12 Predrag Punosevac : > >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127593716916639&w=1 > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127601395920661&w=1 > > http://quigon.bsws.de/pa

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-12 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2010/12/12 at 19:51, Martin Schrvder wrote: > > 2010/12/12 Predrag Punosevac : >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127593716916639&w=1 > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127601395920661&w=1 > http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bsdcan-openbsdupdate/mgp2.html > > Best >Martin > > >

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-12 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/12 Predrag Punosevac : > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127593716916639&w=1 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127601395920661&w=1 http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bsdcan-openbsdupdate/mgp2.html Best Martin

Re: OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-11 Thread Predrag Punosevac
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OpenBSD 4.8's bsd.mp doesn't detect 4GB Memory

2010-12-11 Thread Denise H. G.
Hi guys. Recently I installed OpenBSD 4.8 and found out that it can't detect 4GB memory on my amd64 box. From the output of dmesg I can see it detects all the memory hardware (4x1G memory bars). Yet it can only use about 3.5G of them, like an i386 kernel does. I've googled the issue and some say