From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 18:12:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A8437B407 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f561CiU14637 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA20797 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 15367 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jun 2001 01:12:27 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:12:27 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kek971@mail.usask.ca Subject: Re: max ram? Message-ID: <20010606031227.A15354@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Hughes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kek971@mail.usask.ca References: <991789096.3b1d8028ab8ee@my.usask.ca> <02f101c0ee24$79b7b5d0$0200a8c0@mark2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <02f101c0ee24$79b7b5d0$0200a8c0@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:03:17AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:03:17AM +0100, Mark Hughes wrote: > > 1.How many rams can be supported on freebsd box? > > not sure, someone else will have to answer this one....i think "lots" is probably the best > I can do. Probably limited by the motherboard in the computer rather than the OS, but as I > said, someone else will have to help you out with this. I think 4 GB is the maximum supported by FreeBSD. Few motherboards can handle that much RAM though. > > > 3.Sould I really upgrade new kernel rather than generic one? > > What is pros & cons? > > the only reason to change from the GENERIC kernel is if you need support for some > non-standard hardware, or wish to optimise the kernel by taking out unused device drivers. > This is not so much an upgrade to the kernel as just recompiling it from source. > > Upgrading the kernel goes hand in hand with when you upgrade the rest of the OS - if it's > public facing you should track any security updates/warnings, but other than that you > shouldn't need to upgrade the kernel/OS. Kernel upgrading in the linux sense are not > required, as far as I know. > > Hope this helps, and as ever, I could be wrong :-) > > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message