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To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:22:26 -0700
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>Linux has a 1G limit on physical memory.
>
>What's the limit for FreeBSD?

   There isn't any specific limit, but some kernel parameters need to be
tweaked before more than 256MB can be used. Someday this will hopefully
be made a bit more automatic. Wcarchive has 512MB of RAM and I've heard
of a few FreeBSD systems running with 1GB of RAM.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project