Strange Bootup Message - A/S 4000 - Tru64 5.1B

From: Steve Lowe <Steve.Lowe_at_aurora.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:51:14 -0600 (CST)

Good morning.

This past weekend, we upgraded our A/S 4000 to Tru64 5.1B, along with
installing a 2d processor and an additional 1GB memory. Users also
immediately complained of the system being slower. I worked with our
application support line and HP support to ensure the proper kernel
configurations, rebuilding the kernel late Wednesday. System reboot
was early Thursday morning.

I then ran sys_check and have discovered a strange memory problem.
There is a major difference between the amounts of physical and available
memory. HP support indicates that this is a very strange message!

Any ideas as to where I should start?

Thanks in advance.

 -- Steve Lowe
    Information Services
    Aurora University

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 300. SYSTEM STARTUP
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Thu Apr 3 07:06:54 2003
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM admin
SYSTEM ID x00070016
SYSTYPE x00000004
PROCESSOR COUNT 2.
PROCESSOR WHO LOGGED x00000000
MESSAGE Alpha boot: available memory from
                                         _0x3386000 to 0x5fff8000
                                        Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650);
                                         _Wed Apr 2 17:01:12 CST 2003
                                        physical memory = 1536.00 megabytes.
                                        available memory = 348.69 megabytes.
                                        using 5860 buffers containing 45.78
                                         _megabytes of memory
                                        Master cpu at slot 0
                                        Starting secondary cpu 1
                                        Firmware revision: 6.0
                                        PALcode: UNIX version 1.23
                                        AlphaServer 4000 5/466 4MB
                                        pci1 (primary bus:1) at mcbus0 slot 5
Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 13:52:03 NZST

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