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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:07:55 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Alessandro de Manzano <demanzano@playstos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Max memory + swap
Message-ID:  <20040929100755.GA44755@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <1641817201906.20040929093322@playstos.com>
References:  <1471731738281.20040928094902@playstos.com> <20040928082002.GA28679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <1641817201906.20040929093322@playstos.com>

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:33:22AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
> 
> Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:20:02 AM, ha scritto:
> 
> ET> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
> 
> >> I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or
> >> 4 Gbytes total, is this true ?
> >> (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine)
> 
> ET> There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4
> ET> without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a
> ET> few GB swap should not be any problem.
> 
> this means swap space is not counted in 4 Gb Limit-before-PAE, right ?
> I mean, something like 2Gb physical RAM + 4 Gb of swap _without_ PAE
> should be ok ?

Yes.



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