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From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Subject: Re: MAX physical memory for FreeBSD ? 
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Hmph.  Well, David's the expert.  I know I used mine for a newsserver for
a while, and didn't have a problem with it, but it was only for a couple
days, and a few make worlds.

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >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.
> 
>    The machine will boot and may even work with certain loads, but machines
> that need lots of networking buffers or other kernel resources will run out
> of kernel virtual memory and will need the patches I sent in a previous
> message.
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>