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gnuyoga is currently offline  gnuyoga
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Let me describe the problem in detail before that i will share my configuration

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 Ghz
Mother Board: Intel DG33FB
HardDisk : 160GB SATA
RAM: 6GB (2GB x 3)
OS: Centos 5.1 Server Install
Kernel Version: kernel-PAE-2.6.24-ovz002.2.i686.rpm
Kernel args: acpi=off

When i boot with above kernel, Starting Udev take a long time. It takes more than 30 minutes.

Message i c in the console is

Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the backgroup [FAILED]

when i run the same machine with less than 4GB of ram i dont have any problem, all VE's work fine.

Reading about openvz kernel for debian, i installed etch and installed the kernel .... but it also takes a long time .....

Message i c in the console is

Waiting for /dev/ to be fully populated ......

That means i have problem when physical ram is more than 4GB.


Some more stats of 2.6.24-ovz002.2-PAE kernel with 6GB RAM....

dmesg
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.24-ovz002.2-PAE (root@centos-32-build) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 SMP Fri Feb 29 00:39:59 MSK 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009ec00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009ec00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cf220000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf220000 - 00000000cf222000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf222000 - 00000000cf329000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf329000 - 00000000cf3ea000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3ea000 - 00000000cf3f3000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3f3000 - 00000000cf3f4000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3f4000 - 00000000cf3ff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf3ff000 - 00000000cf400000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000cf400000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 00000001ac000000 (usable)
5952MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe200
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 1753088) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->   229376
  HighMem    229376 ->  1753088
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->  1753088
On node 0 totalpages: 1753088
  DMA zone: 36 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4060 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 1980 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 223300 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 13392 pages used for memmap
  HighMem zone: 1510320 pages, LIFO batch:31
  Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.4 present.
Using APIC driver default
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
    Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID:  Product ID:  APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 0 I/O APICs
BIOS bug, no explicit IRQ entries, using default mptable. (tell your hw vendor)
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at d2000000 (gap: d0000000:20000000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009e000 - 000000000009f000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 1737680
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=off 2 pci=nommconf noapic 
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07c9000 soft=c07a9000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 2333.162 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 6142116k/7012352k available (2231k kernel code, 69328k reserved, 1190k data, 292k init, 5295268k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xffe13000 - 0xfffff000   (1968 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000   (2048 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xffbfe000   ( 115 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
      .init : 0xc075d000 - 0xc07a6000   ( 292 kB)
      .data : 0xc062ddf0 - 0xc07576c0   (1190 kB)
      .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc062ddf0   (2231 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4668.12 BogoMIPS (lpj=2334064)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Initializing cgroup subsys ns
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3fd 00000000 00000001 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003940 0000e3fd 00000000 00000001 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed
Page beancounter hash is 524288 entries.
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6550  @ 2.33GHz stepping 0b
Total of 1 processors activated (4668.12 BogoMIPS).
Brought up 1 CPUs
net_namespace: 76 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
Time: 21:21:19  Date: 03/18/08
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread F7822000 could not acquire Mutex [1] [20070126]
No dock devices found.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH6 GPIO
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2912] at 0000:00:1f.0
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1c.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:19.0
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:06:02.0
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:06:03.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
  IO window: 2000-2fff
  MEM window: e0100000-e01fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: 1000-1fff
  MEM window: e0000000-e00fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1c.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:19.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:06:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:06:03.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1c.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1a.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2333k freed
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1205875278.437:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4
...

[Updated on: Wed, 19 March 2008 05:53]

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Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28435 is a reply to message #28431] Tue, 18 March 2008 10:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
rickb is currently offline  rickb
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Hi, we need more details about the problem. Be as specific as possible to receive the most intelligent response.



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Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28436 is a reply to message #28435] Tue, 18 March 2008 11:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gnuyoga is currently offline  gnuyoga
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Let me describe the problem in detail before that i will share my configuration

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 Ghz
Mother Board: Intel DG33FB
HardDisk : 160GB SATA
RAM: 6GB (2GB x 3)
OS: Centos 5.1 Server Install
Kernel Version: kernel-PAE-2.6.24-ovz002.2.i686.rpm
Kernel args: acpi=off

When i boot with above kernel, Starting Udev take a long time. It takes more than 30 minutes.

Message i c in the console is

Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the backgroup [FAILED]

when i run the same machine with less than 4GB of ram i dont have any problem, all VE's work fine.

Reading about openvz kernel for debian, i installed etch and installed the kernel .... but it also takes a long time .....

Message i c in the console is

Waiting for /dev/ to be fully populated ......

That means i have problem when physical ram is more than 4GB. Any one listening ??

- sree






[Updated on: Tue, 18 March 2008 12:53]

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Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28449 is a reply to message #28431] Tue, 18 March 2008 14:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shuaib85 is currently offline  shuaib85
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gnuyoga wrote on Tue, 18 March 2008 05:12



when i run the same machine with less than 4GB of ram i dont have any problem, all VE's work fine.

- sree


I believe your mother board does not support more than 4 GB of RAM. You need to check the specifications of the motherboard. I had this problem before and the motherboard does not support certain size of RAM. Just check on the Internet. May be that is the problem


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Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28450 is a reply to message #28449] Tue, 18 March 2008 15:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gnuyoga is currently offline  gnuyoga
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normal kernel just works fine with 6GB of RAM .


- sree

[Updated on: Tue, 18 March 2008 15:04]

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Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28458 is a reply to message #28431] Wed, 19 March 2008 09:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
adobriyan is currently offline  adobriyan
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Please post /proc/mtrr output from 6G kernel.
Also, why have you turned off ACPI?
Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28482 is a reply to message #28458] Thu, 20 March 2008 08:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gnuyoga is currently offline  gnuyoga
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without acpi=off it will not boot

BTW i installed X86-64bit Centos 5 and it looks clean with kernel 2.6.24 ovz002.2

i have 6GB of ram 12GB of swap

- sree
Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28495 is a reply to message #28482] Thu, 20 March 2008 16:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
adobriyan is currently offline  adobriyan
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and you still need acpi=off?
Re: Centos 5 6 gigs of ram not working [message #28519 is a reply to message #28495] Fri, 21 March 2008 19:21 Go to previous message
gnuyoga is currently offline  gnuyoga
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adobriyan,

yes
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