From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 07:33:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC29516A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from viger.playstos.com (viger.playstos.com [81.208.22.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D9E43D1D for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:33:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from demanzano@playstos.com) Received: from sunshine.playstos.ldr (gw2.playstos.com [81.208.22.130]) by viger.playstos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3CD20682; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:33:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:33:22 +0200 From: Alessandro de Manzano Organization: Playstos - TIMA SpA X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1641817201906.20040929093322@playstos.com> To: Erik Trulsson In-Reply-To: <20040928082002.GA28679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1471731738281.20040928094902@playstos.com> <20040928082002.GA28679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Max memory + swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Alessandro de Manzano List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:33:24 -0000 Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:20:02 AM, ha scritto: ET> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: >> I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or >> 4 Gbytes total, is this true ? >> (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine) ET> There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4 ET> without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a ET> few GB swap should not be any problem. this means swap space is not counted in 4 Gb Limit-before-PAE, right ? I mean, something like 2Gb physical RAM + 4 Gb of swap _without_ PAE should be ok ? >> I would avoid to tweak kernel parameters, if possible, like KVA pages >> and similar things I don't know ;) ET> Then don't go above 2GB RAM. To make that work I think you need to do ET> exactly what ypu want to avoid. ok, fair enough :)) Many thanks! -- Alessandro de Manzano System & Network Administrator Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. Corso Sempione 63 20149 Milano, Italy tel.: +39-023314153 fax : +39-02315678 email: demanzano@playstos.com http://www.playstos.com