From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 13:22: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3D237B41B for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g1KLM2O75113; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:22:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max RAM supported by FreeBSD References: <1556477954.20020220210026@e-box.dk> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Feb 2002 16:22:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1556477954.20020220210026@e-box.dk> Message-ID: <44ofijdf2d.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG S=F8ren Neigaard writes: > Linux can as standard support up to 1GB RAM, if more is present you > need to compile the kernel with support for the large amount of RAM. > Linux also supports up to 64GB RAM, although 32bit only allows 4GB (as > I understand it, I'm not an expert). >=20 > What about FreeBSD, is it the same here, or how does it work in the > worlds best OS? It's more or less the same here, although I don't think you should have to compile special kernels for the purpose. This is covered in the FreeBSD FAQ, a document I recommend to you highly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message