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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ?
In-Reply-To: <199707220110.SAA27799@monk.via.net> from Joe McGuckin at "Jul 21, 97 06:10:56 pm"
To: joe@via.net (Joe McGuckin)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:05:49 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> 
> Linux has a 1G limit on physical memory.
> 
> What's the limit for FreeBSD?
> 
There is no known limitation, other than the limitation due to the
virtual space taken up by the kernel (256MB or so.)  It is likely that
a system as large as 1G would require a kernel that has 512M-1GB of virtual
space.  To attain that requires special tuning, but should work.  Also, due
to some unfortunate decisions in the BSDI startup-code, BSDI binary support
is also broken when tuning the kernel size > 256MB.

John