FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.1GHz with 8GB RAM

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 26 01:15:46 PDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:15:13PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> I still have problem running FreeBSD 5.3 with 8GB RAM on Dual amd64 2.1GHz
> (IBM @server 325, ServeRAID 6M) with 8GB RAM.
..
> CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 (2193.18-MHz K8-class CPU)

BTW, AMD doesn't make 2.1 GHz CPU's.  You have a 2.2 GHz CPU.

> It was working ok with 4 GB RAM. Afterwards I added another 4GB RAM and 
> tried to boot FreeBSD
> with 8GB RAM.

An IBM e325 has only 6 DIMM slots, specifically what RAM configuration
are you using?  Do you have ECC turned on?  Are using DRAM scrubbing?
What is your BIOS memory interleaving settings?

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