From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Sep 20 00:34:33 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF2CBE03E5 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 5u623l20@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qt0-f169.google.com (mail-qt0-f169.google.com [209.85.216.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4437A1ECB; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:34:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 5u623l20@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qt0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 38so786854qte.1; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:34:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=EG96MWioxg0IK+PbdG+qjY8r4+WmyMPivkMjniivErM=; b=HQKKZ8JC100mM6NFNgozG+vXwGiIhVtNk/1Of/ydpcs7F5+t0559QWSu44tDmw8bxT RFzcs+s/D9XoigVm33ZMJaq6H+PXqOyO0N3Uk1WAs2DKf8wZpY3eliRvCPchPVdxCyMm ppr/daZH5qeXUQF6mOZEBFPX+7ZM24vjUNlUU5a9cU0bLOEIdVtZY+Dx/97TZ8bAGAPT xjFn0C5n+XlP3aCCSJKw66Q8l0rseiffCo2lGzdJzMoGgex32mL8UZYn92CVjH9446xB FH5p9Fx4v4IFJCOZ/cH1dW9d+O41cTLjr6a4mysNwhlEb/GzFc7GrHCCqnra8d3yISJq sNxA== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMAme6M11xHV7GJv9MhgZYZBQbL0dMydVzLvSssjoYVAVbuk/pzAeXz9vlDNJPWoA== X-Received: by 10.237.37.220 with SMTP id y28mr33515074qtc.8.1474331233003; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qk0-f174.google.com (mail-qk0-f174.google.com. [209.85.220.174]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l187sm14558582qkc.8.2016.09.19.17.27.12 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-qk0-f174.google.com with SMTP id z190so1398000qkc.3; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:27:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.55.114.193 with SMTP id n184mr34476165qkc.4.1474331231854; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.28.230 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <41ff69b6-7ad3-6f95-8995-aeb0416c658e@freebsd.org> References: <41ff69b6-7ad3-6f95-8995-aeb0416c658e@freebsd.org> From: Muhammad Moinur Rahman Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:27:11 +0600 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Maximum memory for various freebsd releases To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:34:33 -0000 10/amd64 supports 4TB. Not sure about 8. Moreover if you are running 32 bit don't forget to recompile the kernel with PAE support. So far I remember early FreeBSD didn't come with PAE in default kernel. And if you are still running 8 you should plan on moving forward to 9 or 10. On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > Looking through the various release notes I see that one thing thing that > is rarely mentioned is the amount of physical memory supported, or any > tuning that may be required to run more than some amoutn (should it be > necessary to change some table sizes etc.). > > If anyone has that information I'm looking to know if it is possible to > run 768GM of ram on an 8.0 machine and a 10.0 machine, and if not in the > default configuration, whether there are any changes to the configuration > that would allow this. > > Julian > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >