From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 15:16:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E882916A422 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from estartu@etustar.ze.tum.de) Received: from etustar.ze.tum.de (etustar.ze.tum.de [129.187.39.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5149243D45 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:16:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estartu@etustar.ze.tum.de) Received: from etustar.ze.tum.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by etustar.ze.tum.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2FFGfee003935; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:16:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from estartu@etustar.ze.tum.de) Received: (from estartu@localhost) by etustar.ze.tum.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k2FFGfKE003934; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:16:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from estartu) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:16:41 +0100 From: Gerhard Schmidt To: Andy Hilker Message-ID: <20060315151641.GA3911@augusta.de> References: <200603141630.k2EGUgDe053168@lurza.secnetix.de> <4416F383.9050409@centtech.com> <20060315142902.GA3275@augusta.de> <20060315151030.GB84666@mail.crypta.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060315151030.GB84666@mail.crypta.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Gerhard Schmidt , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB 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, 15 Mar 2006 15:16:38 -0000 On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Andy Hilker wrote: > Hi, > > You (Gerhard Schmidt) wrote: > > > The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. I believe you > > > would either need to use the PAE kernel option, or use the 64bit version > > > of FreeBSD on a corresponding 64bit hardware. > > > > I Have a i386 server running with 4Gig of ram without PAE. It's running > > with 5-STABLE. Has this changed in 6.0. > > No. It depends on your hardware how much memory is really available. > But there is no limit at 3GB in general. > > Do you use special options (KVA space etc.) in kernel-config > or make.conf to have a stable system? I have the following options in the kernel # Fix for the Memory problems options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE="4" options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(1024*1024*1024)" options KVA_PAGES=512 It runs stable for 4 Years now. Some problem when hyperthreading is enabled, but without hyperthreading it's stable sofar. Bye Estartu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Schmidt | Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 | | PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | EMail: estartu@augusta.de | on request Germany | |