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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:25:05 -0700 (MST)
From: FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD extended paging
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Does this mean FreeBSD doesn't take advantage of x86 extended paging
capabilities?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:27:31PM -0500, Jason Borkowsky wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody tell me how to disable extended memory pages (or how to define
> > them to something like 4K in size)? I ask because there has been an Athlon
> > bug discovered that is affected by using extended memory page sizes, and I
> > need to determine if this is what is causing my FreeBSD box instability.
> > Thanks!
>
> It doesn't affect FreeBSD.
>
> Kris
>


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