From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 13:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD99B37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C8D43E4A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0180.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.180] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17kWE4-0002oi-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:49:12 -0700 Message-ID: <3D6E888B.EC3EAC9F@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:48:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jake Burkholder Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE References: <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com> <20020829164416.A67527@locore.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jake Burkholder wrote: > > If you need a larger amount of UVA space, you might want to consider > > buying an IA64 machine, instead, since the bigger your iron, the > > bigger your KVA space requirements will be. > > What, no UltraSPARC? :) :) :) Unfortunately, my SPARC machine is not an UltraSPARC machine, and I wasn't aware of whether or not snapshots were being created for it or not at this point, so I limited myself to talking about what I knew to be true. I knew not to recommend the Alpha because it is limited to 2G of physical memory. I didn't know what the limitation on physical memory was in the UltraSPARC, but I knew that the IA64 could handle more than 4G of physical memory, which was the IA32 limit that needed working around. Is UltraSPARC an answer to the question of how to get a larger UVA space without sacrificing KVA space, with more physical memory than an IA32, and are snapshots that boot fully multiuser and install via sysinstall available? If so, what does a motherboard with a CPU, suitable for rack mounting, cost these days? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message