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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.


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