From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 13:15:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA29518 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29506 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdd@localhost) by avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) id VAA26735; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:14:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:14:33 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Dixon X-Sender: jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net To: Tom Samplonius cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015