From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 08:20:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC0816A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC37743D41 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:20:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 044F337E43; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90CB37E4F for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF8337E44 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 28711 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Sep 2004 08:20:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:20:02 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Alessandro de Manzano Message-ID: <20040928082002.GA28679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alessandro de Manzano , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1471731738281.20040928094902@playstos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1471731738281.20040928094902@playstos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max memory + swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:20:08 -0000 On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm deploying a new server with FreeBSD 4.10-Release and I'll need a > quite big piece of memory. > I was thinking of installing 1 Gb of RAM plus another Gigabytes of > swap. > I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or > 4 Gbytes total, is this true ? > (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine) There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4 without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a few GB swap should not be any problem. > > I would avoid to tweak kernel parameters, if possible, like KVA pages > and similar things I don't know ;) Then don't go above 2GB RAM. To make that work I think you need to do exactly what ypu want to avoid. > > Anyone with similar experiences could, please, remember me actual > limits ? > > Many thanks in advance! -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se