Re: Kernel panic on amd64Netbsd 4.0

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:12:32 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.general,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.help
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:03:25PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:10:41 -0400
> "Derrick Lobo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Manuel
> > 
> > I can't change to 3 GB as I have 4 x 2Gb ram on this server. I can
> > try with lesser memory to see if the problem goes away. However is
> > this a memory erro or the SCSI controller failing..
> > 
> 
> Isn't there a kernel configuration option to limit the size of memory
> used by NetBSD?  I don't see one for amd64 in boot(8), but I thought
> I'd seen it before.  

I think it's
options REALEXTMEM=integer

at last for i386; never tested it on amd64.

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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