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Subject: Re: physical memory limit?
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Hi Andreas,

>I remember back in 05 we had a similar issue when I tried
>'buildworld' on a G4 alu book. Then you suggested to me
>to reduce hw.physmem to 512MB.

 Indeed, and I'm certain those problems were fixed in r1.115
of mmu_oea.c where the secondary PTEG hash was corrected.

>I'll reduce/replace the memory and see how it behaves.

 OK, let us know how it goes.

later,

Peter.