From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 12:11:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995A4A79 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kazakevichilya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537CB8FC13 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 16so16673323obc.13 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:11:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=hk4BB5J7V9Qp5SsKVfkjoXtUT3fP94Mrh2v8FclKY2w=; b=qnlPKPvZNEQwjUSbn/CQCNsSBrrGCMBa25YszMWxDBQTCcW/FGG/CPMxYQz0EnZfyS 3grdzhNKoxo3mU3Hsps6C3icoMcgl4RpewH3IvCqnwrCv4qaBsnGjPaqMK67FtfpmUkB lzkiZjbitYiBaXTvJzHvZsffVeDBpybkEeZce1ggXKW35NrfRJ2HBFoDt4KSSccUBKWT y7+nkH2gG8DAI3tJiqAZvGkG7kJjrpp1KOmjEH8rux89mVjuyaxO8V0b8ai+4TzzZdC/ terfuqNZdc2SX8Dhfj7nZGfPp8lsOI6irUILJyRm91JsRkWNqQQ11gFCfse+FzTUmNt7 PUng== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.21.175 with SMTP id w15mr7684317obe.28.1354191116518; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:11:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.38.104 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:11:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1354188645527-5765188.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <20121128123623.4A29.AA011270@yahoo.com> <50B657DA.8050700@netfence.it> <1354188645527-5765188.post@n5.nabble.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:11:56 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64 From: Ilya Kazakevich To: Jakub Lach Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:11:57 -0000 Hello, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > i386 will not see anything above 4 GB Actually you *can* give access to >4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till Pentium Pro) but that is only for OS (32bit apps would see 4Gb only). Anyway, I have not seen any troubles with 64bit installations. Ilya.