7.0/6.2, 4GB and AHC

[Tony Holmes]

On +Jul 19, Scott Long wrote:
> The AHC driver was personally tested with >4GB while it was in active
> development, but it's certainly possible that bugs have crept in over
> the years.  I'll test it when I get off vacation next week and see what
> I come up with.  Please contact me directly if I forget.  Just out of
> curiosity, try booting with one of your known bad configurations and
> break into the the loader prompt and do the following:
> 
> set vm.old_contigmalloc=1

Ah I wish I could but the box has been deployed into production 550 km
away with 2GB :)

It was very easy to reproduce - 4GB ram, 2 ahc cards with drives and
6.2R amd64 would trigger it.

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Tony Holmes

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Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.