From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 20 18:23: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cs.utep.edu (mail.cs.utep.edu [129.108.5.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA2837B403 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from janb@cs.utep.edu) Received: from gecko (gecko [129.108.5.51]) by cs.utep.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6L1MGX10735; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:22:16 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:22:17 -0600 (MDT) From: X-Sender: To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Stefan Molnar , Marek Gorka , Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM In-Reply-To: <3B589107.2030609@tcoip.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even, when there is not more than 4BG RAM? Should a facility such as this not be disabled when not in use? JAn On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > janb@cs.utep.edu wrote: > > > I am interestied as to why this is. Is there a sound technical reason do > > not support this, or was it merely the fact that there are not too many > > machines that can take advantage of this anyway, and nobody got around to > > do this? > > > Yes, there is a good reason. It reduces overall performance. > > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net > > Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. > -- Friedrich Nietzsche > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message