From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 12:36:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7418637BBA4 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from u98jobj@stud.hh.se) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09402; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:36:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00081608250300.05629@sparky> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:36:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Bjork To: Jeff Soule Subject: RE: Max Memory question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Aug-00 Jeff Soule wrote: > What is the maximum memory FreeBSD 40 will support? > > I found one message from a couple of years ago that said 4Gig but > only 1 Gig has been tested. Is this realy true? I would like to put > together a server with 8Gig of Ram (Our softeware is very memory > hungry due to cacheing) > > Thanks, > /Jeff > If I recall correctly the 4GB memory limit is due to the x86 structure. There is some info on this on the cdrom.com homepage but I can't find it. Basically it said that they were thinking of moving to Alpha architecture to be able to handle more requests. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 16-Aug-00 Time: 21:36:20 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message