From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 24 11:35:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08272 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08258 Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tqPkk-0003vmC; Sat, 24 Feb 96 11:35 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA07514; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:35:41 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@Root.COM cc: core@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: out of kernel VM In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:50:28 PST." <199602240650.WAA00452@Root.COM> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:35:41 +0100 Message-ID: <7512.825190541@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > So what do ya' think? Should I go ahead with the changes for -stable? > Without them, FreeBSD may not work properly with 512MB of main memory. Hmm, maybe that's the problem I'm having on my laptop... Just kidding! :-) I think Peters concerns are valid, but it's not below me to support patching up BSDI binaries after we have loaded them, so if that works I'm all for it. Are we one of the most scalable OS's around by now or what ? From a 386sx/nothing to wcarchive is quite a span, and we seem to use the hw pretty well in both cases. On a related note: Have you guys seen the pppbios.pdf file on ftp.intel.com ? It's a guide for P6 bios writers, and there is quite a bit of gold-dust in it wrt. huge ram, SMP and other things. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.