Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:52:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020829225225.A5665@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3D6E888B.EC3EAC9F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:48:11PM -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0208291600300.303-100000@sirppi.helsinki.fi> <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com> <20020829164416.A67527@locore.ca> <3D6E888B.EC3EAC9F@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:48:11PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > If you need a larger amount of UVA space, you might want to consider > > > buying an IA64 machine, instead, since the bigger your iron, the > > > bigger your KVA space requirements will be. > > > > What, no UltraSPARC? :) :) :) > > Unfortunately, my SPARC machine is not an UltraSPARC machine, and > I wasn't aware of whether or not snapshots were being created for > it or not at this point, so I limited myself to talking about what > I knew to be true. > > I knew not to recommend the Alpha because it is limited to 2G > of physical memory. ? FreeBSD is limited to using 2G of whatever you have in the Alpha. Which is a deficiency that has been debated a number of times, IIRC it needs bus space work etc. See the archives.. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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