Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 12:22:03 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty <wpub1@net-link.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 Gbyte of ram Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980421122203.0074c288@smtp.net-link.net> In-Reply-To: <19980418210040.39656@mcs.net> References: <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com> <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB167F9DB4@kaori.communique.net> <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com>
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At 09:00 PM 4/18/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 06:51:59PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: >> >Then I do not understand.. I have 3*256 megs on the system, the biios >> >counts them, freebsd 2.2.6 counts them, then panics with 'memory out of >> >range'... neither the install floppy nor the kernel.GENERIC were able to >> >boot with 768megs. >> >> You'll need to be more specific than "memory out of range". It's possible >> that bounce buffers are still killing installs on large machines. So, pull >> out some memory, install FreeBSD, configure/build/install a kernel without >> the BOUNCE_BUFFERS option, and then put the memory back in. >> >> >BTW will a news server qualify as a system with lots of TCP connections >> >and the need of lots of mbufs ? >> >> Probably not. Most large news servers handle on the order of perhaps >> 100-200 TCP connections. When I say "large number", I mean in the thousands. >> >> -DG > >A big web server will though :-) > So, what is considered 'alot' of mbufs? 1024, 2048, 4096??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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