>You are probably haunted by a bad issue with DMA memory and running out of
>it. Your top is missing -SH since then you would probably see the
>pagedameon go bananas. The problem is you have not enough memory below 4G
>but the pagedaemon is not able to properly free memory there since it has
>no proper tracking for that condition. It only knows memory is short and
>tries to drop as much as possible over and over again. As a result your
>system becomes unresponsive.
>
>The boot loader can print the memory map. Which should show you
>how much memory is below 4G (I think the command is machine mem).
>
>This is a known issue and there is some work going on to fix the problem.
>--
>:wq Claudio
Thanks, Claudio. Let me know if I can help by testing anything.
In case it's useful, here is the output of "machine memory" at the
boot prompt. Transcribed by hand so there are probably errors.
boot> machine memory
Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 609KB
Region 1: type 2 at 0xf0000 for 64KB
Region 2: type 2 at 0xfec00000 for 20480KB
Region 3: type 2 at 0xe0000000 for 262144KB
Region 4: type 2 at 0x98400 for 31KB
Region 5: type 2 at 0xcfdf0000 for 64KB
Region 6: type 1 at 0x100000 for 3404292KB
Region 7: type 3 at 0xcfde3000 for 52KB
Region 8: type 4 at 0xcfde0000 for 12KB
REgion 9: type 1 at 0x100000000 for 13369344KB
Low ram: 609KB High ram: 3404292KB
Total free memory: 16774245KB
--
James
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