kernel panic with greater that 8 GB of memory

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Dec 1 10:21:05 PST 2004


On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:45:37AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> The setting of interest is should the BIOS round-robin interleave
> physical addresses across the NUMA nodes[*].  The reference AMI BIOS
> refers to this as "Node Interleaving".  It should be "DISABLED".  Or if
> the BIOS speaks of the SRAT table, it should be "ENABLED".  While FreeBSD
> doesn't use the SRAT table (and cannot until ACPI 3.0 BIOS's); turning on
> the SRAT turns off node interleaving.

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, setting "ACPI SRAT Support"
to ENABLE and having "Node Interleaving" set to DISABLE does not
help.  I still get the panic if hw.physmem="16G".

-- 
Steve


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