Re: I'm having big problems with Broadcom NIC (gbe0) on HP ProLiant DL380p 128GB Ram, NIC model HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR, after installed it cannot use a ping command, sometime it can do that but

2013-06-11 Thread Jason Birch
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Surat Sodchuen wrote: > thank for your kindness > i tired that your suggestion but cannot resolve problem. > for more information ... > FreeBSD 9.1-Release on HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 128GB of Ram > every time when booting process it seem freezing a

Re: I'm having big problems with Broadcom NIC (gbe0) on HP ProLiant DL380p 128GB Ram, NIC model HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR, after installed it cannot use a ping command, sometime it can do that but

2013-06-06 Thread Jason Birch
Please include your question as email content, not subject. http://serverfault.com/questions/361673/hp-nc107i-bcm5723-on-freebsd-9 Indicates you may be able to set hw.bge.allow_asf="0" in /boot/loader.conf. Try this, and if the problem persists, please reply with more information (FreeBSD versio

I'm having big problems with Broadcom NIC (gbe0) on HP ProLiant DL380p 128GB Ram, NIC model HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR, after installed it cannot use a ping command, sometime it can do that but sho

2013-06-06 Thread Surat Sodchuen
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Re: where is 1GB of RAM

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/02/2013 19:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) > avail memory = 33167446016 (31630 MB) > > > > where did 1GB of memory go? Used by the kernel. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpke

Re: where is 1GB of RAM

2013-02-04 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> writes: > > new dell server: ... > real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) > avail memory = 33167446016 (31630 MB) > > where did 1GB of memory go? - new BIOS firmware available ? - BIOS - preallocation - graphics card ? - $ sysctl -a |grep -i mem jb ___

where is 1GB of RAM

2013-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
new dell server: Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #2: Sat

Clang'ed FreeBSD: Builds Quicker, Uses Way Less RAM

2012-09-07 Thread jb
Good news on clang front: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE3NjI jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubs

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Piotr Czachur
Ian, Thank you for wind of hope :) 2012/7/30 Ian Smith : > On my Thinkpad T23, BIOS autostart (not autoresume) time setting also > works only from a cold start. WoL also worked from 'off' but not from > S3, but that was on 8.1-STABLE. What version are you running, and on > what machine? Some r

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 425, Issue 13, Message: 13 On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:37:48 +0200 Piotr Czachur wrote: > Dear users, > > Does FreeBSD support waking system up from S3 (suspend to RAM) state > at specified time? On Linux, it can be achieved using rtcwake command >

Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-28 Thread Piotr Czachur
Dear users, Does FreeBSD support waking system up from S3 (suspend to RAM) state at specified time? On Linux, it can be achieved using rtcwake command that uses RTC support in kernel. If it's not supported, maybe I can somehow enable waking from S3 using BIOS autoresume option? It powers m

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks Matthew / Michael for your responses on this. On 9/14/2011 2:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 18:27, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "if you're swapping, t

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread RW
> > The old rule of thumb of swap = 2 x RAM dates back to the days when > 128MB RAM was a big deal. Nowadays, you're likely to have that much > in your phone, and systems with 128GB RAM are not unknown. > > In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/09/2011 18:27, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > >> > ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "if you're >> > swapping, then you're doing it wrong." > I think your re

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "if you're > swapping, then you're doing it wrong." I think your response follows the excellent pedagogical principle: "a little inaccuracy sa

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Excellent response. Thank you so much. On Sep 14, 2011 9:56 AM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > > On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > > Each operating system seems to have different documentation regarding > > what a decent swap size is for systems with large a

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > Each operating system seems to have different documentation regarding > what a decent swap size is for systems with large amounts of RAM. My > system only has 8GB of RAM. Some people have gone with the general idea > that 2X the amou

Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good morning all, Each operating system seems to have different documentation regarding what a decent swap size is for systems with large amounts of RAM. My system only has 8GB of RAM. Some people have gone with the general idea that 2X the amount of RAM is sufficient but for systems with

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:33 PM 9/4/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: Does sound sorta-like VM thrashing. Could it be hardware based _bank-switching_ on memory? This would cause an intterrupt every time successive memory accesses were in differnt 'banks'. Indeed. In fact, when you put in a 4GB module, the BIOS reports

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-03 Thread John Levine
>I'd like to experiment with having FreeBSD try to use less than the >full 4 GB (e.g., to make it act as if memory ended at, say, 3 GB) >but I'm not sure how to tell the kernel to do that. In /boot/loader.conf set "hw.physmem" to whatever size you want it to use. "man loader" for more info R's

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
Have been doing more experimentation regarding this problem. It doesn't occur with a 1 GB memory module in the machine, nor with a 2 GB module -- only a 4 GB module. This makes me wonder if there's some sort of memory bank switching or extended addressing mechanism here (like PAE). Perhaps it'

Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
I've just seen something very peculiar. I have here a dual Atom (D525) system which was running with 1 GB of RAM, and this morning I put a 4 GB module into the system instead. Suddenly, the systat(8) and top(8) commands were both reporting bursts of interrupt overhead as high as 25% of

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? FWIW, I can tell you some experiences that I&#

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Jaime Kikpole
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My > question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? FWIW, I can tell you some experiences that I've had. Example #1: At one tim

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 26, 2011 7:46:10 PM -0400, Chris Hill is alleged to have said: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf

RE: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: 27 May 2011 02:16 To: Gary Gatten; Chuck Swiger Cc: 'questi...@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router? On Thu, 26 May

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amou

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Gary Gatten
? Tweaked/minimal kernel, etc. - Original Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my co

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My > question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? ISC's DHCPd typically runs a few tens

RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and not much else. I expect the amount of traffic (throu

Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-21 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 21, 2011 9:37:31 PM +0300, Vladislav V. Prodan is alleged to have said: Thanks for the recommendation, but I have all the workers of the amd64 and tests in the i386, with its restrictions did not see the point. Now start the virtual machine to 150MB RAM, FreeBSD 8.2-CURRENT amd64

Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-21 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
more of a priority than data integrity. The other thing to keep in mind is i386 binaries use less RAM than their amd64 counter parts. For this reason, I always make my VM's 32 bit to achieve higher VM density. I have not had trouble with ZFS on i385 with 1GB+ of RAM when following the rec

Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: > Tell choice OS (8.2, 8.2-CURRENT or 9.0-CURRENT, FS (UFS or ZFS) and the > minimum amount of RAM for use in such schemes: > 1) the interaction of multiple routers with established quagga (bgpv4, > bgpv6, ospf) > 2)

Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Vladislav V. Prodan" writes: > Tell choice OS (8.2, 8.2-CURRENT or 9.0-CURRENT, FS (UFS or ZFS) and > the minimum amount of RAM for use in such schemes: > 1) the interaction of multiple routers with established quagga (bgpv4, > bgpv6, ospf) > 2) the work of two

Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-20 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
Tell choice OS (8.2, 8.2-CURRENT or 9.0-CURRENT, FS (UFS or ZFS) and the minimum amount of RAM for use in such schemes: 1) the interaction of multiple routers with established quagga (bgpv4, bgpv6, ospf) 2) the work of two different modes of MYSQL replication servers/clusters. 3) backup zfs

Re: Firewire RAM access

2010-07-29 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 07/27/10 07:38, EforeZZ wrote: Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its "-m" switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. The question is.. Should this always wo

Firewire RAM access

2010-07-27 Thread EforeZZ
Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its "-m" switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. 5 r...@purevil:t

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Iv Ray
Thank you all for the consistent advice. Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
of a .0 release. That said, I haven't heard of major issues with 8.0, so either is likely to be fine. > b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way? For a machine with 4GB of RAM, amd64 is likely to be a better choice. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Iv Ray wrote: > >> We are getting a new web server - >> >> Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM >> >> It will have - >> >> 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Iv Ray wrote: > We are getting a new web server - > > Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM > > It will have - > > 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1 > > We will run - > > - Apache 2.x > - PHP 5.x > - PostgreSQL 8.x

Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Iv Ray
We are getting a new web server - Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM It will have - 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1 We will run - - Apache 2.x - PHP 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x We have a couple of questions- If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-08 Thread Ian Smith
revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > > absolutely hammering the swap. > > > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so > > I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. [Rock, mate, you

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:21:06AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Da Rock : > > > >>Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > >> > >>I have revived

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
n on those topics. I think we should simply point interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. [...] I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! Well, I'm currently using a P3 866MHz with 512MB RAM with musca! And it works very well too. ;-

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Da Rock
there's already a > > voluminous discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point > > interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own > > minds. > > > [...] > > I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! >

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Kaya Saman
interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. [...] I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! This works really well, I have firefox and opera browsers installed and will look at getting my favorite Seamonkey installed too sometime but isn'

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
Good point. Something anyone considering these Firefox alternatives should investigate. Same for OpenOffice. There are alternatives to each of the apps in the OpenOffice suite that might not have all the same bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. gnumeric is nice for a sprea

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. gnumeric is nice for a spreadsheet. May not be particularly lightweight, but lighter than OO. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:21:06 PST Charlie Kester wrote: For some ideas on which apps to try, look at the apps bundled in some of the Linux distros that target small machines. http://bengross.com/smallunix.html has a good list of these distros. Hmm, I probably should have checked that referenc

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock : Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a dem

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a de

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Da Rock : > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a de

Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-05 Thread Da Rock
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffic

Re: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Glen Barber
> need to enable PAE mode in the kernel Not for amd64. Mark, What is the output of 'uname -a'? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

RE: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200 > From: st...@mapper.nl > To: freebsd-am...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > CC: > Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram > > Hello, > > I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. > H

8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Stapper
Hello, I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. Strangely enough, it says the following: [r...@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB) and [r...@carmen ~]# s

calculate RAM for sysctl kern.maxfiles

2009-05-18 Thread Valentin Popov
I need use more 128 000 kern.maxfilesperproc for the process how can i calculate hardware for this purpose (RAM i think)? will use 7.1, 7.2 AMD64 Thanks for help Regards Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Giessel
On Monday, May 11, 2009, at 01:25PM, "Bill Moran" wrote: >In response to "Len Conrad" : > >> I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. > >Really? This question has been asked a gazillion times ... Agreeing with Bill Moran: http://www

Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Len Conrad" : > I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Really? This question has been asked a gazillion times ... > Where's the 600 MB gone to? i386 arch can only see 4G total, but much hardware reserves the last 500M or so for special hardware addressing. The

4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Len Conrad
I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Where's the 600 MB gone to? Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubs

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-10 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:43:08 -0700 (PDT), Dino Vliet wrote: DV> I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital. DV> DV> The s

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-09 Thread Josh Carroll
d less reliable. > > ... > pagesize 4096 > pagesizemask is 0xf000 > want 2400MB (2516582400 bytes) > got   2400MB (2516582400 bytes), trying mlock ...failed for unknown reason > Loop 1: > . > > In my /etc/rc/conf file I had added these li

memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-09 Thread Dino Vliet
   2400MB (2516582400 bytes), trying mlock ...failed for unknown reason Loop 1: . In my /etc/rc/conf file I had added these lines in the past (when I had 4gb RAM installed in it) sysctl -w kern.ipc.shmmax=1954311424 sysctl -w kern.ipc.shmall=238000 What is the case here? Why is memtest

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar <> wrote: > > I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. > > > > Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) > > i'm not sure if install kernel is actually /i386 version. It must be an amd64 kernel, otherwise it would not be usable for "fixit

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) i'm not sure if install kernel is actually /i386 version. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Matej Šerc
detected (with generic > kernel) or 9? > > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Matej Šerc wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 >> server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to >> ins

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just for sure - after installation is still 4GB detected (with generic kernel) or 9? On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Matej Šerc wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to install the

Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-03-31 Thread Matej Šerc
Hi all, I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to install the system it is displayed that only 4 GBs are detected. Also the default swap partition size is 4 GB ... What would be the needed steps

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Ross Cameron
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. >> > make -j > generic kernel why not make -j <4x # of CPUs> ??? that should

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 07:12:06 Artem Kuchin wrote: > Hello! > > I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. > > Is there a suitable port for such task? > > I'd like to point out that i don't want to measure perfomance. I need to >

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. make -j generic kernel but it won't full load CPUs and RAM copy GENERIC to 10 other files, do config, and then make depend;make -j in every directory. if any kernel won't build - machine is not OK. while doing th

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hello! I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. Is there a suitable port for such task? I'd like to point out that i don't want to measure perfomance. I need to really really heavily load the server up to it's m

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
Hello! I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. Is there a suitable port for such task? I'd like to point out that i don't want to measure perfomance. I need to really really heavily load the server up to it's maximum. well, not quite a port

Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. Is there a suitable port for such task? I'd like to point out that i don't want to measure perfomance. I need to really really heavily load the server up to it's max

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-17 Thread Tim Kellers
achine isn't swapping, there's usually nothing to worry about. For comparison's sake here is the top -P output from my Dell 2950 dual quad core server; this one is has 8 GB or RAM installed last pid: 94403; load averages: 0.02, 0.38, 0.63 up 11+21:13:56 12:12:47

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:10 -0500 David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: > > Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the > > inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to > > cached, and the inactive queue contains

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free > > > in the Mem: line > > > > > > The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours an

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free > > in the Mem: line > > > > The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and > > change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line > > I've be

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its la

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't something going on that looked odd to anyone else. Tim RW wrote: On Fri, 1

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers wrote: > I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any > machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I > haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it doesn't free memory

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Kellers writes: > My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram > > www# uname -a > FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 > r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 > > When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11

RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Kellers
My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet

Free 1GB laptop RAM

2008-12-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi guys, Not sure if anyone would want them, but I have 2 x 512MB DDR667 working Dimms laying around unused that I'm more than happy to part with. Please note that it is standard laptop ram (this is compatible with some of the ultra small form factor machines though). So if inter

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:14:35 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never been 100% clear on the exact differences, but it basically > has to do with where the data in RAM came from. Depending on whether > it was a VM page, or a disk page will determine what b

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 03 October 2008, RW wrote: > The terms are a bit misleading, because the don't all relate to the use > of the memory from the user's perspective, but how it's seen within > FreeBSD's integrated cache/VM system. Thanks to you and everyone else who wrote. I guess I'll go back to using it

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:58:54 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: > > usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) > avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) > > However, most of it is just sitting there when it

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
active and the program need not be reloaded from disk. I think non-program code can also be "inactive". i am sure. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> inactive, cache, and buffer are all different types of "buffer". That is my understanding as well. > I'm fairly sure that inactive is memory used by program code. When the > program terminates, the memory is marked as inactive, which means the > next time the program starts the code can simply

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 02 October 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: > > > > usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) > > avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) > &g

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Mem: 482M Active, 1044M Inact, 363M Wired, 3792K Cache, 214M Buf, 4023M Free Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free I can understand that on the other machine maybe inactive memory is more beneficial than cache or buffers, but this system is just sitting there with 4GB free (and the exact same amount of b

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be used for buffers or cache: Mem: 1186M Active, 3902M Inact, 468M Wired, 233M Cache, 214M Buf, 138M Free Swap: 8192M Total, 900K Used, 8191M Fre

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 02 October 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: > > usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) > avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) > > However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be > used

More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be used for buffers or cache: Mem: 1186M Active, 3902M Inact, 468M Wired, 233M Cache, 214M

Re: facility for mobile DDR RAM

2008-09-27 Thread john seth
  Hi Sir,     Actually we are doing a project "Power management in RAM". For that, we want to know whether Partial Array Self Refresh (PASR) is implemented in software or not. We have read datasheets & we think that PASR is implemented at hardware level. The bank(s) which

Re: facility for mobile DDR RAM

2008-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 26, 2008, at 6:51 AM, john seth wrote: I want to know whether there is facility for mobile DDR RAM, so that we can switch of a bank(s) without loosing the data in other bank(s).. Swapping RAM without taking down the system is feature or capability of high-end hardware like Sun

facility for mobile DDR RAM

2008-09-26 Thread john seth
Hi friends, I want to know whether there is facility for mobile DDR RAM, so that we can switch of a bank(s) without loosing the data in other bank(s).. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 FAMP Server RAM problem

2008-07-24 Thread Jason W. Morgan
On 2008.07.24 17:49:56, Benjamin Adams wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm running a website (http://www.FreeBSD-World.com/) When > the RAM is used up and moves to inactive the pages stop loading 100%. > Pages will stop halfway and sometimes I will get a display of what is in the >

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

2008-07-12 Thread Rodolfo Pellegrino
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Robert Heron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use: > > FreeBSD 7.0-R on i386 server with motherboard S5000VSA and 6GB RAM onboard. > BIOS version - 88 (the latest) > > Kernel includes: optionsMAXMEM=(6*1024*1024

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