PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Dennis Nikiforov
Hello, I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard PAE kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed like this have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue because all memory tests have been negative. basically the issue

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread krad
On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov dennis.nikifo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard PAE kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed like this have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Dennis Nikiforov
There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov dennis.nikifo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread krad
On 14 April 2011 11:14, Dennis Nikiforov dennis.nikifo...@gmail.com wrote: There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Dennis Nikiforov
Well, the idea was to run many instances of the app (each process does not need more than a couple of gigs of ram). Using virtualization is another option, but it will require a lot more maintenance of every VM. It would be a lot better if a single OS can use PAE. On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM,

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/04/2011 12:14, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. Some ideas: 1) You can run 32-bit applications on 64-bit FreeBSD (and / or set up a 32-bit jail) 2) You can try booting a snapshot of

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:14:37 -0500, Dennis Nikiforov dennis.nikifo...@gmail.com wrote: There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. Run it in a 32bit jail. PAE has never been very stable/reliable. Regards, Mark