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To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:19:19 -0700
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>Other than setting MAXMEM, and making sure you have the latest pmap.c (I
>think patches) you'd be fine.
>
>I had 512MB in a box, and it worked fine, and I distinctly remember
>somebody on this list with 1GB.

   The machine will boot and may even work with certain loads, but machines
that need lots of networking buffers or other kernel resources will run out
of kernel virtual memory and will need the patches I sent in a previous
message.

-DG

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