Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:18:49 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ? Message-ID: <20020424191849.3a81b126.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC40A62.B40E816F@mindspring.com> References: <20020422091602.O1721-100000@mail1.hub.org> <3CC40A62.B40E816F@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:04:34 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
TL> FreeBSD doesn't currently support bank selection. Peter was
TL> working on it, last time I heard. Linux supports it, at an
TL> incredible performance penalty.
This inspired an off the wall thought that may be insane. Would
it be possible (on a >4Gb system) to address 4Gb of RAM and write a driver
to make the rest appear as a device, which could then be used for a
preferred or (even neater) first level swap.
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