From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 3 12:44:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898C337B66D for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29538; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:44:49 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <20001003214440.A2046@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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.. I have 3 8400s to play with- 2 with 2GB each. What I can do is to swipe one system's boards and put it in the one running FreeBSD.. but time, time time... -matt > > > > 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. Expand your horizons! Leap in! Don't horrify Jordan and Poul and others and let me keep doing systems programming in FreeBSD! Stop me before I commit again.... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message