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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:47:10 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC
Message-ID:  <36EFEA9E.ED8DFF5@newsguy.com>
References:  <12176.921649076@zippy.cdrom.com>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> 
> >     Cost:
> >       Annoy the people who have large memory configurations and who
> >       don't build custom kernels.
> 
> Too high.  The fact that we got royally screwed in a magazine
> comparison test is what *made* David add the >64MB check in the first
> place.  People with broken server-class hardware like this should fix
> it, not band-aid it.

Hear! Hear! It's not the people with *working* hardware that should
get the short end!

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

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