From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 23:31:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09878 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09872 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdd@localhost) by avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) id HAA28669; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:31:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:31:16 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Dixon X-Sender: jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net To: David Greenman cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <199707220222.TAA09222@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >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. Which? We have a machine (a root name server) that needs to be brought up to 512 MB urgently. > 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. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015