Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:20:56 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Brian" <bellefso@execpc.com> Cc: "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Max Physical Memory Message-ID: <200005152220.PAA10371@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 17:01:50 CDT." <BHEMLHECJJAIKIOHKCHIEEIODKAA.bellefso@execpc.com>
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>Hello, > >What is the maximum amount of physical memory supported by 4.0? Is this >strictly a function of the motherboards chipset? I am looking at a quad Xeon >board that can support 16 GB's and would like to make sure that this can be >supported without major patching, etc. The maximum that FreeBSD supports now and in the medium term future on the x86 platform is 4GB. Going beyond that requires majors changes to device drives and the VM system. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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