FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
I've been running FreeBSD 6.0 stable on an A8N-SLI Premium amd64 box with 2gb of ram for a few weeks now and it has been running well, but some of the analysis I run needs more ram, so I dropped in another 2 gb and started having all sorts of weird problems, such as DHCP failure and running very

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:19:07 +1100, Robert Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been running FreeBSD 6.0 stable on an A8N-SLI Premium amd64 box with 2gb of ram for a few weeks now and it has been running well, ...[snip] Forgot to mention, I'm running a kernel with 'options SMP' + GENERIC

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:10:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: off, then everything works, but FreeBSD can only see 3gb of ram. Some documentation suggested a custom kernel with 'options PAE' enabled would be required, but adding that generates an 'invalid option PEA'

Memory leak?

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Leftwich
After running some number crunching for the last twelve hours I noticed my box starting to use swap. Given that it has 4gb in it (of which 3gb is available, see my other email for that issue) and I know that the app never uses more than around 1gb I was surprised. Looking at the numbers from top I

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:29:03 +0100, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you run other applications also? There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a memory leak that turned out to be firefox with some extensions, updates are available now. Unfortunately no, its cli

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0500, David Scheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've seen (very, very, very, very) large memory leaks on long-lived Python processes. I haven't looked at it to figure out if it's python, some module, or the application doing something stupid. But the processes

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:58:07 -0500, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Robert Leftwich wrote: Possibly your database is using lots of SysV shared memory, which would explain why wired is going up so much, otherwise perhaps something in the kernel

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:00:46 +1100, Robert Leftwich I can't see anything that explains the discrepancy. Below is the top -o size after a reboot, followed by the current top after 8 datasets (the extra python process is the analysis app - at a low memory usage point): Oops, just noticed

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Leftwich
Joseph Kerian wrote: I was planning on purchasing one of these boards in the near future, so I'm rather interested if you have solved this particular problem. In no particular order, my suggestions are: -The A8N-SLI's are extremely picky about the RAM you give them; have you double checked with