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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:54:57 -0800
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>Is there a maximum that FreeBSD can support?

   There are some problems with going >256MB that will require some special
tuning of kernel parameters (which ones depend entirely on what you're doing),
but there are several FreeBSD machines that I know of running with 1GB of
RAM - wcarchive being one of them.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project