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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:18:20 +1030 (CST)
From:      Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Matt <mattl3@earthlink.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: max phy mem known working with FreeBSD 4.x
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0211051916580.4835-100000@ns.aus.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DC77EEB.AC0782@mindspring.com>

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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


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