From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 22 01:06:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA15148 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA15142 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA22961; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:05:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Jim Dixon cc: David Greenman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Other than setting MAXMEM, and making sure you have the latest pmap.c (I think patches) you'd be fine. I had 512MB in a box, and it worked fine, and I distinctly remember somebody on this list with 1GB. On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote: > > > >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. > > Which? We have a machine (a root name server) that needs to be brought > up to 512 MB urgently. > > > 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. > > -- > Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net > tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 >