From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 10:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AC937B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91B743ED4 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:19:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBGIJQL1015691 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:19:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA25564 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:19:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 22212 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Dec 2002 17:52:41 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:52:40 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Ken Randolph Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maximumx Memory for Free BSD 4.7? Message-ID: <20021216175240.GA22203@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ken Randolph , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DFDFDF9.2040708@fspl.lib.ar.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFDFDF9.2040708@fspl.lib.ar.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:23:21AM -0600, Ken Randolph wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently considering building a web server and I am > wanting to use Free BSD 4.7 for the O/S. I was wondering if it has a > limit to the amount of memory it will recognize, like Windows 98 will > only recognize up to 256 MB. I want to use a refurbished Dell 410 with > two Pentium III CPU's (running at 550 MHZ) and would like to put the > maximum amount of memory (i.e., 2048 MB) in it. I have checked all of > the hardware and chipstructures on the system and it seems as though > they should be compatible. FreeBSD cannot handle more than 4GB of memory on x86 systems, but 2048MB should work fine. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message