From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 20 16:55:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EBD16A403; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from angel.ticketswitch.com (angel.ticketswitch.com [IPv6:2002:57e0:1d4e::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610EC13C458; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from [10.50.50.2] (helo=smaug.rattatosk) by angel.ticketswitch.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JRsEg-000127-KD; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:58 +0000 Received: from dilbert.rattatosk ([10.50.50.6] helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by smaug.rattatosk with esmtp (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JRsEg-000Aou-H0; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:58 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JRsEg-0002RH-GA; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:58 +0000 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:58 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:59 -0000 > Architecturally, it's a nasty kludge. As far as stability on FreeBSD is > concerned, my only machine under PAE with 4 GB RAM (without PAE it would > use a bit over 3 GB) is very solid on 6-STABLE. To the original poster - does a PAE kernel actually boot on your 16 gig machines ? My problem was that I had tested PAE of 4 gig machines (to avoid the "bit over 3" problem) but when it came down to 16 gig on the Xeons then it wouldnt actually boot :-( -pete.