From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 06:54:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03289 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 06:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plaidsocks.com (stefan@c657209-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.1.81.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03211 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 06:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by plaidsocks.com (8.8.8/1.3.2) with SMTP id GAA11042; Wed, 13 May 1998 06:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 06:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Stefan Molnar X-Sender: stefan@c657209-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com To: perl cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 with FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm considering purchasing an AMD K6 233 and was wondering if it would > work fine with FreeBSD. I see some stuff in the LINT kernel about Cyrix > chips but nothing about AMD. > > Is there anything I should know about AMD processors vs. Intel ones? > Is there any noticeable difference other than the price? > > Someone mentioned something about a 64MB RAM limit. Is this true? I am personaly useing the 233 chip and it runs rings around my old intel config. Also I have used a system at UC Berkeley that is a K6 and it normaly has 100+ users loged in shell (telnet and ssh). And it works wonders. If I remember correctly the 64 limit is in the generic. But if you compile in I think it is called MAXRAMSIZE or something like that. It should be in the LINT. With the ram size in question you should be fine. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message