From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 18 2: 7:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.xs4all.nl (smtp10.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8517B37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:07:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@xs4all.nl) Received: from webmail2.xs4all.nl (webmail2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.35] (may be forged)) by smtp10.xs4all.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6I978K23828; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by webmail2.xs4all.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6I96An83442; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:06:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@xs4all.nl) X-Authentication-Warning: webmail2.xs4all.nl: nobody set sender to wkb@xs4all.nl using -f Received: from 161.114.88.74 (SquirrelMail authenticated user wkb) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:06:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37611.161.114.88.74.995447170.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:06:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM From: "Wilko Bulte" To: In-Reply-To: <20010718105637.A97286@student.uu.se> References: <20010718105637.A97286@student.uu.se> Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.1.3 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:39:52AM +0200, Marek Gorka wrote: >> (with the following problem i've addressed the >> comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc group at first, but actually there was no >> practical solution nor suggestion given; hope i'll find it here) >> >> ----- >> >> hello, >> >> i have an intel 4400 platform equipped with 4 xeon processors and 6G >> ram. the mainboard is based on the ServerWorks ServerSet II HE chipset >> (by intel), which supports up to 16G RAM (or 32G, i'm not sure at the >> moment). >> >> i have installed FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. >> >> unfortunately, the system seems unable to work with this amount of >> ram. > > FreeBSD does not support more than 4G RAM (at least not on x86, I > don't know about Alpha). On alpha the limit is currently 2GB. > My suggestion would be to remove the extra 2G RAM from the machine and > see if things work better then. (FreeBSD will not be able to use it > anyway so you don't lose anything by removing it.) I don't recall having seen ill effects of the 8GB we have in our 8way Proliant 8000. Just that the kernel mentions it is not going to use the excess (...) 4GB of RAM. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message