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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:15:30 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory addressing ?
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In response to Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>:

> Hello
> 
> I will receive in few days a new server and I wonder how much
> memory FreeBSD is able to manage ? The processors (2) are Intel Xeon

All versions of FreeBSD can handle huge amounts of memory.

If you want to run a 32-bit version with more than 4g, you have to
rebuild the kernel with PAE.

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Bill Moran
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