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Subject: Re: PAE tuning
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On 2006/10/05 10:29, Paul Lathrop seems to have typed:
> I just built a new Intel Xeon FreeBSD 6.1 server with 14Gb of RAM. I
> started digging into PAE so that we could actually make use of the high
> memory in this box

The other thing you might consider is that if that Xeon system is 64bit
(and if its a new system, its likely the Woodcrest Xeon which are 64bit),
you could use the AMD64 version and make use of the memory in that way.