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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:36:00 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PEA kernel in FreeBSD 7.0
Message-ID:  <20081119133600.GB87794@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200811191325.mAJDPigW048344@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200811191325.mAJDPigW048344@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:25:44PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am about to install few brand new servers, each with 8GB RAM.
> 
> If I choose to use 7.0, will I have to use PEA kernel to be able to
> access the total memory?

Some clarification: the term is PAE, not PEA.  It's important you refer
to it as PAE, because the kernel option is actually called that; if you
typo it, it won't work.  :-)

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