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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines runni=
ng=20
> at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist?

Some specific drivers do not work on such systems.  FreeBSD itself has
no problems.

FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #52: Tue Mar  7 02:51:14 UTC 2006
    root@fbsd-amd64.isc.org:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/AMD64
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 846 (1991.81-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD"  Id =3D 0xf5a  Stepping =3D 10
  Features=3D0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE=
,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  AMD Features=3D0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory  =3D 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory =3D 15581761536 (14859 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3

Kris



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