From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 5: 5:36 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 55A5437B43C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 05:05:32 -0700 (PDT) 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 OAA24195; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:02:13 +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: <004d01c0083a$7ae187e0$43b82397@oemcomputer> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:02:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Bjork To: Massimo De Giorgi Subject: RE: R: Max Memory question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, lplist@closedsrc.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Aug-00 Massimo De Giorgi wrote: >>I thought that I heard somewhere that the Intel Xeon processors > > But is it an x86 class processor ? I mean, does FreeBSD support > this processor too ? > Yes, it's a pentium II or III with plenty of L2-cache, up to 2MB I think, depending on how much you are willing to pay. >>supported 36-bit memory addressing... thus upping it's limit to 32GB. > > With a 36-bit memory addressing shouldn't the limit be 64GB ? > I suspect they use a controlbit or something, I'm not taking any bets on it but that's my guess. > Bye. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 17-Aug-00 Time: 14:02:13 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message