From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 22:49:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989DC37B424 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA19306; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 07:49:29 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39B337EA.F523C3D9@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:49:30 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-eigen i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: media@mail1.nai.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 64M RAM?? References: <200009030608.GAA02427@groggy.anc.ptialaska.net>; from groggy@iname.com on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:08:55AM +0000 <200009030608.GAA02427@groggy.anc.ptialaska.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am running FreeBSD 3.4 on a 133 Pentium. > = > I remember reading something that FreeBSD can only access 64M of RAM?? = Is > that true?? Does having more than 64M hurt?? Unfortunately I cannot c= heck > my FreeBSD documentation at the moment because the hardware is currentl= y > disassembled. Hmm, a Pentium 133? It=B4s not by accident a motherboard with Intel TX chipset? There you might have this information that more than 64MB RAM is a bad idea, because the TX chipset can only cache 64MB. Everything above is uncached and therefore very slow. But this is not OS related at all. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message