ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

Joshua Isom jrisom at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 01:42:59 UTC 2013


I sent the sysctl booting with 12GB.

11GB + 1023MB is bad, 11GB + 512MB is fine.  It failed within a couple 
minutes.  I'd rather not split hairs and find out which amount of megs 
breaks it.

But I noticed when it was failing, active_bpages was increasing, every 
other time it's zero.

On 4/2/2013 8:18 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 2 April 2013 18:13, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I went half an hour being ok, and 12GB was dropping TCP connections in five
>> minutes.  I'm estimating a little, but it was unusable in just a little
>> time.
>>
>> Using 10GB seems fine, but get's a lot bounced.  The connections stable and
>> responsive with just occasional packet loss, but bounced is 6307 right now.
>
> Bouncing is fine. Why bouncing is broken in the ath driver, I don't yet know.
>
> Sounds like I need to acquire a machine with 32GB RAM. Sigh.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>



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