Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:21:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Andreas Dobloug <andreasd@ifi.uio.no>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911090919450.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199911080817.AAA16940@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > * Matthew Dillon > > | FreeBSD boxes can handle up to 4 Gigabytes of main memory. > > > > Is this true for the Alpha kernels too? > > There are issues with > 1GB of RAM on Alphas at the moment, which may > be easier to resolve soon. We have a 4100 with 1GB, which should be > upgraded to 1.5 shortly and which will be available for various people > to beat on at that point. As a special case, we support xp1000 and ds20 class alphas with upto 2G of memory (not actually tested). The real fix which will allow essentially unbounded memory size (dependant on hardware limits) will happen on the 4100. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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