Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:58 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM Message-ID: <E1JRsEg-0002RH-GA@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <fphkml$m2m$1@ger.gmane.org>
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> Architecturally, it's a nasty kludge. As far as stability on FreeBSD is > concerned, my only machine under PAE with 4 GB RAM (without PAE it would > use a bit over 3 GB) is very solid on 6-STABLE. To the original poster - does a PAE kernel actually boot on your 16 gig machines ? My problem was that I had tested PAE of 4 gig machines (to avoid the "bit over 3" problem) but when it came down to 16 gig on the Xeons then it wouldnt actually boot :-( -pete.
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