Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 00:16:59 +0200 From: Andrea Cocito <andrea.cocito@ieo-research.it> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1beta2 on Alpha ES40 w/ 32GB pys ram Message-ID: <6D4A1D1C-97A3-11D7-A3BB-000393958A82@ieo-research.it>
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Sigh, in a few words this means to me that I'll have to survive to Tru64 on that machine... (the system has 32 GB of physical RAM for a reason..). Sincerely hoping to be able to upgrade it to fbsd soon :) Ciao and thanks, A. On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:48:51 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:17:17PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Andrea Cocito wrote: > > > > > I have a little (??) problem trying to boot FreeBSD 5.1beta2 > > > on an ES40 with 32 gigs of physical RAM, this is the status: > > > > As far as I understand, FreeBSD/alpha has 4G memory limit. > > Depends on the core chipset, but for Tsunami based boxes like ES40 > it is 2G > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:57:40 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > You have to limit physical memory to 2GB or less. Otherwise, DMAs > won't work. -------------------------- Andrea Cocito <andrea.cocito@ieo-research.it> IEO -- European Institute of Oncology - Bioinformatics group tel: +39 02 57489 857 fax: +39 02 57489 851 "If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?" -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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