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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:14:33 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.970728210925.26615B-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970728122351.25161A-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> >   panic: bouce memory out of range
> 
>   Do you have bounce buffers in your kernel?  You probably shouldn't,
> unless you have ISA devices that require DMA.  But who would use ISA
> devices in a large server?

The only "ISA" devices are a floppy drive and an IDE drive.  And,
yes, bounce buffers are enabled.

The server has a lot of memory (we are building it with 384 MB) but
should only hit the disk during once-daily reloads.

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