Large machine test ideas

[mdf at FreeBSD.org]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 26/08/2011 19:44, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> I think that I'll need a 9-CURRENT snapshot on it to run all 128 CPUs,
>>> right?
>>
>> A 9.0-BETA1 snapshot, yes.
>
> Well, I'll leave it another half an hour but the 9.9-beta1 shapshot
> froze on boot after showing a "SRAT: No CPU found for memory domain 4".

This message implies the memory affinity information coming from ACPI
is either non-sensical, or you have an unexpected physical setup where
there really are CPUs with no memory in the local sockets.

You should be able to boot with something like hint.srat.0="disabled"
at the boot loader prompt.

Thanks,
matthew