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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:22:26 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? 
Message-ID:  <199707220222.TAA09222@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:10:56 PDT." <199707220110.SAA27799@monk.via.net> 

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>Linux has a 1G limit on physical memory.
>
>What's the limit for FreeBSD?

   There isn't any specific limit, but some kernel parameters need to be
tweaked before more than 256MB can be used. Someday this will hopefully
be made a bit more automatic. Wcarchive has 512MB of RAM and I've heard
of a few FreeBSD systems running with 1GB of RAM.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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