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To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
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Subject: Re: 6G memory disks?
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David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I suppose a 6G "md" memory disk is impossible?  I recently applied all
> the patches recomended here and even got a 6G memory disk "newfs'd"
> and "mount'd" ... but when I ran bonnie (with size 100M) on it, it
> failed.

AFAIR FreeBSD will address ony 4G of RAM, which is typically split into
3G user and 1 G kernel area.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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