PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread bsd
Hello folks, I have just baught brand new servers with an 8Gb memory attached to each of these server. I generaly use the freebsd-update procedure to update and apply patches to the system. Problem is the default kernel provided with freebsd-update does not seem to have the PAE support

Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread bsd
patches to the system. Problem is the default kernel provided with freebsd-update does not seem to have the PAE support enabled by default. My question is: --- --- What will be the best way to upgrade smoothly my system and have my PAE support enabled? PAE seems to disable kld

Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:39:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions

RE: Weird Real memory reported with 5.4 PAE support

2005-10-01 Thread Tamouh H.
Thanks David, this appears to have resolved the matter. Will wait and see if any panics occur under heavy load. This should really put this in the errata for 5.4-Release Tamouh We've seen similar stuff with Supermicro servers. PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E (or something like that) uses memory addresses

Weird Real memory reported with 5.4 PAE support

2005-09-30 Thread Tamouh H.
i386 Kernel config: options PAE # ENABLE PAE SUPPORT options SMP # ENABLE MULTI PROCESSOR options QUOTA # ENABLE QUOTA SUPPORT makeoptions NO_MODULES=YES # ENABLED FOR PAE SUPPORT device apic

Re: Weird Real memory reported with 5.4 PAE support

2005-09-30 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/30/05, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We have a Supermicro that has Winston 4GB of ECC Registered DDR333 RAM. Dual Xeon Processors. With PAE enabled, it seems the system reports 6GB of realmemory instead of 4GB, as below: We've seen similar stuff with Supermicro servers.

PAE support?

2002-10-17 Thread kbarnett
Does the x86 version of FreeBSD support accessing physical RAM mapped above 4GB? In other words, does FreeBSD support PAE (Physical Address Extension)? Thanks, Kevin Barnett Software Engineer Panasas, Inc. (http://www.panasas.com) (832) 601-7570 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: PAE support?

2002-10-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:22:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the x86 version of FreeBSD support accessing physical RAM mapped above 4GB? In other words, does FreeBSD support PAE (Physical Address Extension)? No, FreeBSD does not support PAE (or PSE for that matter) and thus does not