From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 21 9: 2:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAF314C4A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:02:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id KAA28490; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:01:55 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199906211601.KAA28490@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: SMP, 4GB RAM, 4x CPU In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990621154926.01faf7e8@asacomputers.com> from Kedar Rajadnya at "Jun 21, 1999 08:49:26 am" To: kedar@asacomputers.com (Kedar Rajadnya) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:01:55 -0600 (MDT) Cc: tich@ma.ikos.com (Richard Cownie), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kedar Rajadnya wrote... > >2) To get the use of 4GB dram, I am running 19990604-CURRENT. This > > has problems with 4GB dram (but I've submitted a fix), and also > > This is just a question. Do you think it would be better to use > something like an Alpha 264DP in dual-cpu format(upto 4MB cache) and 4GB RAM > rather than a quad xeon, 4GB RAM and a 32-bit bus? It might be, if we had SMP support on the Alpha. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message