Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE

[Erik Trulsson]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:25:42PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > >>Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory?
> > >
> > >1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of
> > >memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that
> > >many values)
> > >2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get enough
> > >memory
> > >3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored in
> > >kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot of
> > >those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see
> > >http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore
> > >ZFS-specific things).
> > It made no difference. Still the same error.
> >
> > Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found practically
> > no information using
> > google.
> 
> But why use i386 with so much ram? Wouldn't it make more sense running
> amd64 instead?

The CPUs in his machine do not support amd64, so he is stuck with i386.



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