From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 08:50:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9F716A401 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AA513C471 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7935207E; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:50:41 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E502049; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:50:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EE550B88D; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:50:40 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Ann Lee" References: <80b681a50702280156h57966d58gb081e8fb1311fc4a@mail.gmail.com> <86tzx6e2wt.fsf@dwp.des.no> <80b681a50702282004o74225259g765374581a4e7f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:50:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <80b681a50702282004o74225259g765374581a4e7f2@mail.gmail.com> (Ann Lee's message of "Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:04:14 +0800") Message-ID: <86slcpfiu7.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 4.8 max supported RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:50:46 -0000 "Ann Lee" writes: > yes, it's old but stable. so far so good as this running in my production= with > anti-spam email gateway filtering installed more than 2 years. im thinkin= g for > an upgrade the RAM and add 1 more CPU processor in. maybe upgrade the fre= ebsd > version to 5.3 version and above. You probably don't want FreeBSD 5, and certainly not 5.3. Try 6.2 instead. > do i still need to build the custom kernel for 5.3? do u hv the file? can= send > me the instruction? is 5.3 stable enought to support 2 X Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz > processor and 4GB RAM. i seen many forums that some only can detect 3GB R= AM > instead of 4GB RAM. 6.2 should work right out of the box. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no