Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:15:48 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max. amount of physical memory in FBSD 4.1? Message-ID: <20000927141547.J10657@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271326460.2125-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:34:02PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271326460.2125-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Guten tag, -On [20000927 13:35], O. Hartmann (ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) wrote: [snip] >And what is about FreeBSD 4.1? We use now TYAN's Thunder 2500 maonboard >which is capable to hold two CPUs and get equipted with max. 8GB main >memory. This is a nice option because we plan to solve some memory >intensive environtmental research calculations. So, my question seems >to be stupid for those who understand reading kernel code, but for me, >a kind of "normalo", please tell me: how much memory and how many CPUs >is FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE capable to work with in a stable fashion? I have been running FreeBSD 4-STABLE and higher on SMP boxes reliable. Those were 2 CPU boxen. For more CPU's see LINT's options: # Mandatory: options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O # Optional, these are the defaults plus 1: options NCPU=5 # number of CPUs options NBUS=5 # number of busses options NAPIC=2 # number of IO APICs options NINTR=25 # number of INTs 4 Gigabyte is currently the limit. Peter Wemm [peter@freebsd.org] is current working on getting 8 Gigabyte supported and working. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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