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Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE/i386 and >4 GB RAM?
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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