Subject: Re: "too many SBEs..." from 7/mem check on 5000/200 and 3/mem on 5000/240 (solved)
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/22/1999 14:44:22
Chris Tribo wrote:

> on 11/21/99 10:04 PM, Simon Burge at simonb@netbsd.org wrote:
> 
> > When you say "non-working" do you mean "doesn't work with NetBSD" or
> > "doesn't work _at_all_?".  The PX is supported in -current, but not on
> > 1.4.1.
> > 
> > FWIW, the prestoserve module won't do any harm if it's plugged in.  I've
> > got one module in my 5900-260 and the prestoserve simms in both of my
> > 5100s...
> > 
> > Simon.
> 
>     Sorry about that, I meant that I got the same error every time I ran
> test on both machines (probably about 5 times in each machine). I don't
> think I have anything that uses up a large quantity of memory that I could
> actually get an application into that memory space. (It was in the last bank
> of a 32MB module) Is there any other way that I could test it more
> thoroughly? 

You mean the prestoserve gave errors?  Was the machine otherwise full
of memory, and did it probe 449MB or 448MB of RAM?  I'd guess that the
memory sizing routines ``found'' an extra megabyte and started to use
it...

Simon.