Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
motherboard
(http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484).
See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8
GB memory, though 4 GB are not a problem. At first I thought it was
the onboard peripherals, but after disabling them it still persisted.
What's unstable? I only once got it through the boot process.
Running a 5.3-RELEASE i386 kernel it panics, though I haven't
investigated the panic (yet), since I'm not interested in the i386
kernel. The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just hangs/freezes. When the
peripherals are enabled, it's after probing the onboard NIC (bge) and
before probing SATA (no drives present). I've done a verbose boot, of
course, but no additional information is present. The NIC is
recognized, and that's all.
Without the peripherals, but with a 3Com 3c905 PCI NIC, it continues
beyond this point, but doesn't enable the NIC. I don't have dmesg
output for these attempts, so I can't produce the exact message, and I
suspect it's not important. It continues until trying to mount NFS
file systems, where it hangs for obvious reasons. Pressing ^C causes
the system to either panic (and be unable to dump because I don't have
that much swap) or just hang.
None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only
strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes
only 3.5 GB. If I put all DIMMS in, it recognizes the full 8 GB
memory.
I realize that this isn't enough to diagnose the problem. The reason
for this message now is to ask:
1. Has anybody else seen this problem?
2. Has anybody else used this hardware configuration and *not* seen
this problem?
3. Where should I look next?
I'm attaching the (non-verbose) dmesg from a successful boot.
Greg
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5.3-RELEASE has a lot of problems with >4GB due to busdma issues. Those
should no longer be an issue in RELENG_5, including 5.4-PRE. You'll
need to dig in and provide some more details, I guess. I have an HDAMA
dual Opteron system that behaves fine now with 8GB of RAM, so your
problem might lie with particular hardware and/or drivers.
Scott
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