From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 24 10:19: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.nl (smtp3.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672F637B41E; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i0996.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.211.232]) by smtp3.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g3OHIuv08751; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:18:57 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:18:49 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Terry Lambert Cc: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ? Message-Id: <20020424191849.3a81b126.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC40A62.B40E816F@mindspring.com> References: <20020422091602.O1721-100000@mail1.hub.org> <3CC40A62.B40E816F@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:04:34 -0700 Terry Lambert wrote: TL> FreeBSD doesn't currently support bank selection. Peter was TL> working on it, last time I heard. Linux supports it, at an TL> incredible performance penalty. This inspired an off the wall thought that may be insane. Would it be possible (on a >4Gb system) to address 4Gb of RAM and write a driver to make the rest appear as a device, which could then be used for a preferred or (even neater) first level swap. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message