busdma/ata & sysinstall [Was: Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?]

2006-03-13 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
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 sy

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
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. Fre

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
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 arch

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Scott Long
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 th

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Gary Palmer
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

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Scott Long
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 a

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Douglas K. Rand
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

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
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-P

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-10 Thread Scott Long
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 inc

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Kargl
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 ___

6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-10 Thread Nathan Vidican
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, an