From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 28 21:41:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A59837B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) with UUCP id HPX41350 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:41:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from netch@localhost) by iv.nn.kiev.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6SKrne00874 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:53:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:53:49 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM Message-ID: <20010728235349.A594@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <3B589107.2030609@tcoip.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B589107.2030609@tcoip.com.br>; from daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:13:59PM -0300 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 17:13:59, daniel.sobral (Daniel C. Sobral) wrote about "Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM": > > I am interestied as to why this is. Is there a sound technical reason do > > not support this, or was it merely the fact that there are not too many > > machines that can take advantage of this anyway, and nobody got around to > > do this? > Yes, there is a good reason. It reduces overall performance. This new kind of high memory can be used as quick swap area or RAM disk.;| But I didn't hear anything about swap coloring in FreeBSD. /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message