process allocation

I know the drill about it not being the best idea to use PAE, but AMD64 is not an option for my circumstances. First, Here is an output of uname -a: FreeBSD xxxx.net 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Aug 12 19:04:50 UTC 2010 root@xxxx.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAE_KERNEL_9_2_0 i386 I...

Hi guys, On a amd64 8.1-RELEASE box, I have 2x 2GB RAM sticks and the following in dmesg: real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3090038784 (2946 MB) Reading a bit on the web, I came across this and here is the output: SYSTEM MEMORY INFORMATION: mem_wire: 586842112 (...

In VMware Server there is an option to set total amount of memory that can be allocated. Is there such thing in VirtualBox? I have 2 gigs, 256m for VC rest for the system. I can't start second machine with 512m memory. Help?

I tried to install and set up ircproxy and it fails to start. It does not give any error during start up. I looked at the log files and specifically ircproxyd-error.log. It gives this error. [30/12/2010 02:04:21] *** Caught signal 11, Segmentation fault: 11. [30/12/2010 02:04:21] *** Memory...

Hi, I have a AMD64-System on a Intel E2160 with 2x2GB DDR2 RAM: 2048MB DDR2 Aeneon PC5400 CL 5 Currently running: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE dmesg says: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz (1795.04-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6fd Family = 6 Model = f...

All, Any good link or document that explain buffer allocation to kernel itself and then how kernel allocate buffer to various services?

Freebsd doesn't free unused memory but makes it active/inactive. Is it possible to implement memory garbage collector to make such memory reclaimed not in stress conditions but on controlled (maybe background) basis? Of course it violates some design for some kind (from 1 perspective) but ...

Hello! For last few hours I've been hunting a bug in one of my C apps. After calling malloc (same happened with calloc) one of variables suddenly changed value. I've tested this many, many times. I still can't believe it [besides it's 2:10am here) Could someone look this under the scope...

Hi, all! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.x / 8.x on an system with the following configuration: - Motherboard: DFI LanParty DK 790FX-M2RS - Memory: 4GB - Video board: ATI Radeon 3870, by Saphire Things I've tried so far: - Installing FreeBSD 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0RC3 (all amd64)...

Hi, I'd like to bring this topic again as it's very old and I think well known by people who have laptops (I guess the problem is more common for Acer owners). The problem is the following: this is verbose output: bge0: <Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0xb002> irq...

I use ASUS P5B and I install three Kingstone DDR2 Bus 800 in DIMM_A1 and DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B1 . so I have 3GB of ram but when I run sysinfo , I see this output Mostafa# sysinfo mem RAM information Memory information from dmidecode(8) Maximum Memory Module Size: 2048 MB Maximum Total Memory...

Hello guys, I am developing a script that automatically documents settings of particular freebsd (currently 7.x) box from the hardware point of view to the network and services related information. The point of this script is to provide some descriptive information about unknown system's...