From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 5 0:26:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71C737B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.aus.com (adsl-66-127-240-132.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.127.240.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3117D43E6E for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsharpe@ns.aus.com) Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA58mKP09586; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:18:20 +1030 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:18:20 +1030 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matt , Subject: Re: max phy mem known working with FreeBSD 4.x In-Reply-To: <3DC77EEB.AC0782@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Matt wrote: > > > > Anyone knows the max physical mem that can be used with FreeBSD4.3? > [ ... ] > > any chance going more than 4G? > > Sure, if you want to install it to warm things up. > > No, if you want to access it; access is limited to 4G, because > that's 32 bits of address space, and your machine is a 32 bit > machine. Well, the P4 does have an address extension that allows addressing of up to 64GB, EPA or something like that. However, it requires some work. Would be nice in large Samba servers, though, to be able to cache enormous amounts of file data :-) Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, sharpe@ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message