High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

[Scott M. Likens]

I believe this falls under PAE with 4.9 or 5.1.

I'm not aware if 4.9 is currently released due to me not tracking it 
really.  But I am aware 5.1 does have PAE and that does support 4gb+

Regards,

Scott

--On Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:03 PM -0400 Yaoping Ruan 
<yruan at cs.princeton.edu> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found
> kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with
> only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like
> the "high mem" option in Linux?
>
> BTW, we also tried 4.6 release, didn't have this problem but had some
> different issues.
>
> The following is the kernel core dump when I tried to generate a 1GB
> date set.
>
># 0  0xc0216386 in dumpsys ()
> (kgdb) where
># 0  0xc0216386 in dumpsys ()
># 1  0xc0216157 in boot ()
># 2  0xc021657c in poweroff_wait ()
># 3  0xc0389dbe in trap_fatal ()
># 4  0xc0389a91 in trap_pfault ()
># 5  0xc038964f in trap ()
># 6  0xc03882cf in generic_bzero ()
># 7  0xc032335f in ffs_vget ()
># 8  0xc0318119 in ffs_valloc ()
># 9  0xc032b063 in ufs_makeinode ()
># 10 0xc0328aac in ufs_create ()
># 11 0xc032b359 in ufs_vnoperate ()
># 12 0xc024a9f4 in vn_open ()
># 13 0xc0246bf0 in open ()
># 14 0xc038a06d in syscall2 ()
># 15 0xc037ae85 in Xint0x80_syscall ()
># 16 0x8048b3f in ?? ()
># 17 0x80496f1 in ?? ()
># 18 0x8048971 in ?? ()
>
> Thanks in advance for any clue.
>
> - Yaoping Ruan
>
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