Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:04:45 +0100 From: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM Message-ID: <NFBBIJCJGLAFOKNCJHKHIEIBCGAA.jon@witchspace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010718105637.A97286@student.uu.se>
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Hiya > > i have an intel 4400 platform equipped with 4 xeon processors and 6G ram. > > the mainboard is based on the ServerWorks ServerSet II HE chipset (by > > intel), which supports up to 16G RAM (or 32G, i'm not sure at the moment). > > > > i have installed FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. > > > > unfortunately, the system seems unable to work with this amount of ram. > > FreeBSD does not support more than 4G RAM (at least not on x86, I > don't know about Alpha). > My suggestion would be to remove the extra 2G RAM from the machine and > see if things work better then. (FreeBSD will not be able to use it > anyway so you don't lose anything by removing it.) Dumb question: by my calculations, a 32bit address register can only address 2**32 bytes of memory, ie. 4GB. Is it possible for your average P3/Athlon to addres more than this? Does it use banking/ MMU tricks? -- C-YA Jon <http://www.witchspace.com>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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