From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 3 12:42:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9ABA37B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13gXxd-0006ul-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:42:45 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e93Jiex02092; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:44:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:44:40 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? Message-ID: <20001003214440.A2046@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001003212847.A1868@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:28:46PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:28:46PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > What is the currently max supported memory size on Alpha? 2Gb maybe? > > > > Or will 4Gb also be OK? > > Do you know *if* there is a hard limit at 2Gb? > > I dunno. Doug would be the one to know. I was supposed to look into this for > the Rawhide, but all I ever got was 1.5GB. I could do a book exercise and look > at it, but (see below). I have a 4 and a 6Gb Rawhide as well. At some point in time (assuming they are not being used for customer support) I could give them a spin. And -current should build and boot please.. > > CPUs, so it is a good SMP testbed as well. > > Yes- I'm still struggling to clear a block of time to help more with this. I > had to move offices and other stuff happened as well - I'm still about 1.5 > meters underwater. Well, I am not much of help when it comes to programming, but I do have access to a few SMP alphas. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message