From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 9: 6:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA09514FDF for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:05:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10MEK8-000GRW-00; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:05:12 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:54:46 +0900." <36EBE9D6.7E6320FE@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:05:12 +0200 Message-ID: <63209.921431112@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:54:46 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > I'm against this. Magazines test OS as they come out of the box. This was the argument I raised in my original mail. However, it looks pretty ugly on paper: It is quite possible that you will have problems installing FreeBSD on your high-end machine, but you'll have great benchmarks once you do. ;-) Anyway, I'm loath for this to turn into an unproductive flame war, so I won't try to argue an opinion I've already put forward. Instead, I ask whether there's any other solution you can think of, since we're likely to see more and more people having problems related to failed speculative memory probes as >64MB machines become entry-level. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message