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Subject: Re: 5.1beta2 on Alpha ES40 w/ 32GB pys ram 
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Sigh,

in a few words this means to me that I'll have to survive to
Tru64 on that machine... (the system has 32 GB of physical
RAM for a reason..).

Sincerely hoping to be able to upgrade it to fbsd soon :)

Ciao and thanks,

A.

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:48:51 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:17:17PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Andrea Cocito wrote:
> >
> > > I have a little (??) problem trying to boot FreeBSD 5.1beta2
> > > on an ES40 with 32 gigs of  physical RAM, this is the status:
> >
> > As far as I understand, FreeBSD/alpha has 4G memory limit.
>
> Depends on the core chipset, but for Tsunami based boxes like ES40
> it is 2G
>

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:57:40 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Gallatin 
<gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> You have to limit physical memory to 2GB or less.  Otherwise, DMAs
> won't work.

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