From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 17 10:21:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A9C14C84 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA28396; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:20:46 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36EFEA9E.ED8DFF5@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:47:10 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC References: <12176.921649076@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > Cost: > > Annoy the people who have large memory configurations and who > > don't build custom kernels. > > Too high. The fact that we got royally screwed in a magazine > comparison test is what *made* David add the >64MB check in the first > place. People with broken server-class hardware like this should fix > it, not band-aid it. Hear! Hear! It's not the people with *working* hardware that should get the short end! -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message