From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 15:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw00.execpc.com (mailgw00.execpc.com [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BD837B581 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bellefso@execpc.com) Received: from pop00.execpc.com (pop00.execpc.com [169.207.1.114]) by mailgw00.execpc.com (8.9.1) id RAA24472 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:54:18 -0500 Received: from packfan (d141.as18.nwbl1.wi.voyager.net [169.207.90.207]) by pop00.execpc.com (8.8.8) id RAA22808 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:54:16 -0500 From: "Brian" To: "Freebsd Questions" Subject: RE: Max Physical Memory Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:54:17 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200005152220.PAA10371@implode.root.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your quick response. I am assuming that this 4 GB between physical and swap. Does this also hold true for the Alpha systems? If not, how current is the alpha support? Is it roughly the same level of support as the x86 platform? Thanks again, Brian -----Original Message----- >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message