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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2007 06:13:49 -0900 (AKST)
From:      Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9-RELEASE/i386 and >4 GB RAM?
Message-ID:  <20071107061143.M26448@alpha.tibor.org>
In-Reply-To: <C3574D9E.B6AAB%fjo-lists@ogris.de>
References:  <C3574D9E.B6AAB%fjo-lists@ogris.de>

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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Felix J. Ogris wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are there any issues with FreeBSD 4.9 on a dual Xeon 2.8 GHz with more than
> 4 Gig of RAM? pae(4) says that 4.9 was the first release with PAE support.
> So I am little bit concerned about driver and overall stability. At least,
> we need working isp/ispfw, ciss, em, and smp/apic.
> Any comments, ideas, caveats? Updating to 6.2 is currently not an option :-(

You could upgrade to 4.11.  I have a couple of FreeBSD servers that I need 
to keep on 4.x for certain reasons and I've got them running 
4.11-RELEASE-p26.  I don't have any experience with PAE though, so I can't 
comment on that.

Mike



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