Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:04:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAE (was Re: bus_dmamem_alloc_size()) Message-ID: <3E3922DA.55D9CDE9@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030129153953.13361A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3E385A1E.629EB694@mindspring.com> <20030130064800.GB7258@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > > "Andrew R. Reiter" wrote: > > > Anyone know the status of PAE in fBSD? I heard rumors awhile back that > > > people had patches, or Y! had patches... but has anyone actually coughed > > > them up? > > > > Contact Paul Saab. > > A year ago, the rumor was that DG was eventually going to do it. > Six months ago it was Peter Wemm. And now Paul Saab?! Sheesh. > Why don't we just wait another few years so 64-bit machines solve > all our problems and we don't have to hack up the VM system? ;-) PSE36 is more intelligent than PAE, but neither one are very smart; they were put there by hardware people who thought that what software people wanted was more processes in RAM, not more RAM in individual processes. As such, they are a generally bad idea. Most people asking the question seem to have bought into the hardware people's picture of the universe, without understanding that. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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