busdma/ata & sysinstall [Was: Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?]
I've spent a considerable amount of time looking through ata/busdma drivers, they need a lot of tidying up, lack of comments doesn't help either... i'd like to grab the handle on busdma & ata projects, with the aim of having them in production state for 6.5-STABLE. I was also looking at systinstall, which requires a major rework, and we have some ideas for that too, I'd say also aim for 6.5. I also am going to talk to Scott L. about it in the near future. If you have any ideas/suggestions for the above drop me an email. Cheers, Igor :-) On 13 Mar 2006, at 22:38, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 14:11 -0600: Nathan> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with Nathan> machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues Nathan> still exist? Kris> Some specific drivers do not work on such systems. FreeBSD Kris> itself has no problems. Is there a means of telling (or even better, a list) which drivers handle (or those that don't) more than 4 GB of RAM? http://www.freebsd.org/projects/busdma/ -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 14:11 -0600: > Nathan> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with > Nathan> machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues > Nathan> still exist? > > Kris> Some specific drivers do not work on such systems. FreeBSD > Kris> itself has no problems. > > Is there a means of telling (or even better, a list) which drivers > handle (or those that don't) more than 4 GB of RAM? http://www.freebsd.org/projects/busdma/ -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running > at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? The only potential issues are with specific drivers (e.g. ata). Search the amd64 mailing list archives for more discussion. Kris pgpuJzokuPkUH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
Gary Palmer wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:57:53PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: Storage drivers that simply will not work:: asr asr asr asr asr pst ida sym Any particular reason "asr" is listed 5 times? Did you mean to replace some of them with other drivers, or are you emphatically sure that asr is broken? :-) It's there to make a point. Do not buy asr hardware and expect it to work on amd64. The driver comes from the vendor, and the vendor hasn't had any interest in supporting it since 2001. There are many other vendors who make much higher quality cards and who are actively interested in supporting FreeBSD, so I recommend doing business with them. Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:57:53PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Storage drivers that simply will not work:: > > asr > asr > asr > asr > asr > pst > ida > sym Any particular reason "asr" is listed 5 times? Did you mean to replace some of them with other drivers, or are you emphatically sure that asr is broken? :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? The only potential issues are with specific drivers (e.g. ata). Search the amd64 mailing list archives for more discussion. Kris Ok, off the top of my head: Storage drivers that are known to work with amd64 and 4GB of RAM or more: aac amr iir (6.1 and above only) ips ahc ahd ciss arcmsr mpt isp Storage drivers that should work, but might need more testing and validation: twa twe mlx mly amd trm Storage drivers that are known to have problems under load: ata hptmv Storage drivers that simply will not work:: asr asr asr asr asr pst ida sym This list isn't definitive, and I've purposely excluded ISA controllers and controllers that are significantly out of date, but it's close enough to give you a good idea of what to shop for. Personally, I feel a bit bad that ata and sym aren't in the first group, but there are only so many hours in the day. Both present interesting challenges. Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
Nathan> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with Nathan> machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues Nathan> still exist? Kris> Some specific drivers do not work on such systems. FreeBSD Kris> itself has no problems. Is there a means of telling (or even better, a list) which drivers handle (or those that don't) more than 4 GB of RAM? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running > at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? Some specific drivers do not work on such systems. FreeBSD itself has no problems. FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #52: Tue Mar 7 02:51:14 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/AMD64 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 846 (1991.81-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf5a Stepping = 10 Features=0x78bfbff AMD Features=0xe0500800 real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB) avail memory = 15581761536 (14859 MB) ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 Kris pgpvTD4aWs1Fp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
Nathan Vidican wrote: I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? We're currently operating with 2GB ECC Registered PC333 ram, but are finding a fairly constant usage of about 1700MB swap space; like to increase system memory, and installed motherboard supports 16 slots x 2GB DIMMS each (for 32Gb total) - but what about FreeBSD? System is running: - Apache (about 10-12 mod_perl httpd's @ 90MB ram each) - Apache (about 20-30 very basic httpds for static stuff @ 12Mb each) - Sendmail, including MimeDefang and SA processes at some 90MB each - MySQL 4.1 running about 70MB Ram - Samba (smbd's running at 30Mb ram each 30-50 in use at any time) - A number of Perl processes ranging from 1Mb - 900Mb each - Other misc, but the above are the major ones Just want to make sure no known issues exist (primarily with the above applications), comments anyone? The ATA driver is still a bit flakey with more than 4GB of RAM, so make sure that you are using either a modern SCSI controller or a RAID controller. Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running > at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? > I've been running with 12 GB for the last 18 months. -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?
I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? We're currently operating with 2GB ECC Registered PC333 ram, but are finding a fairly constant usage of about 1700MB swap space; like to increase system memory, and installed motherboard supports 16 slots x 2GB DIMMS each (for 32Gb total) - but what about FreeBSD? System is running: - Apache (about 10-12 mod_perl httpd's @ 90MB ram each) - Apache (about 20-30 very basic httpds for static stuff @ 12Mb each) - Sendmail, including MimeDefang and SA processes at some 90MB each - MySQL 4.1 running about 70MB Ram - Samba (smbd's running at 30Mb ram each 30-50 in use at any time) - A number of Perl processes ranging from 1Mb - 900Mb each - Other misc, but the above are the major ones Just want to make sure no known issues exist (primarily with the above applications), comments anyone? -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
