From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 16:30:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF71A16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:30:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4216643D73 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:30:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (kjofyb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2EGUgpc053169 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:30:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k2EGUgDe053168; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:30:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:30:42 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200603141630.k2EGUgDe053168@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:30:48 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:30:55 -0000 Hi, I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. What's the current status of running with that amount of memory? I'm not completely up to date in that regard, and searching the archive didn't get any definitive answers. I remember that there were several issues in the past, but I have no idea if they still exist. They required fiddling with VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX, or KVA_PAGES or similar things. Will FreeBSD/i386 6-stable run on a 4 GB machine out of the box? Do I have to apply special tuning (kernel config or sysctl or whatever)? Using PAE shouldn't be necessary, I assume. It would also be interesting to know if 4-stable (which is currently running on the predecessor machines) would run without problems on those new 4 GB ones, too. Thanks in advance for any information! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard." -- Peter van der Linden