>I used a brand new ASUS motherboard I referred to in the subject with the AMD >Fusion APU and associated chipset(s) with OpenBSD 5.1 i386. This ran well for >a few days but ultimately dropped to ddb> repeatedly when i copied several >gigabyte of files from one SATA disk to a softraid mirror of two sata disks. >All disks were attached to the onboard SATA ports. > >One odd thing I noticed was that the reported memory was a) different than the >8GB installed (I'm running i386, not amd64), and that it fluxuated in top. In >the dmesg below real mem = 2814578688 (2684MB). I would expect ~3.3GB to show >up if PAE were not enabled and for 4GB to show up if PAE were enabled.
The model page on asus.com mentions a "brand new UEFI" BIOS, though the UK page mentions only EFI. Either way they tout a number of smart real-time resource adjustments; maybe it's eating from your (ample) memory. ># dmesg >OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC.MP) #188: Sun Feb 12 09:55:11 MST 2012 > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP >cpu0: AMD E-350 Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 1.61 GHz >cpu0: >FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,SSE3,MWAIT,SSSE3,CX16,POPCNT,LAHF,SVM,ABM,SSE4A,WDT >real mem = 2814578688 (2684MB) >avail mem = 2758422528 (2630MB) >mainbus0 at root >bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/16/10, SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ There's a 2011-12-09 BIOS update. -- p
