From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 22:58:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585E71065672 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mail.dannysplace.net (mail.dannysplace.net [213.133.54.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111FE8FC18 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from 203-206-171-212.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.206.171.212] helo=[192.168.10.10]) by mail.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1L2vzo-0006C8-Cr; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:58:15 +1000 Message-ID: <492499DF.5070302@dannysplace.net> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:57:35 +1000 From: Danny Carroll User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dean Hamstead References: <492494DD.2000604@dannysplace.net> <49249762.90503@fragfest.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49249762.90503@fragfest.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.69 (build at 08-Jul-2008 08:59:40) X-Date: 2008-11-20 08:58:04 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:1480 X-Message-Linecount: 27 X-Body-Linecount: 13 X-Message-Size: 970 X-Body-Size: 315 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 3 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 3 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: dean@fragfest.com.au, comp.john@googlemail.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ferrari.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.dannysplace.net) Cc: "John ." , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE with AMD Phenom X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@dannysplace.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:18 -0000 Dean Hamstead wrote: > freebsd can do more than 2gigs ram ages ago? > > are you trying amd64 or i386 port? > AMD64. Actaully I re-read the information about the 2gb limit and it had to do with the kmap pool of available memory. I guess that means the rest of the memory is available to userland processes. -D