From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 13:52:31 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 AB8FA37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C1043E4A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7TKqP96005682; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:52:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7TKqPcZ005681; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:52:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:52:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jake Burkholder , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020829225225.A5665@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com> <20020829164416.A67527@locore.ca> <3D6E888B.EC3EAC9F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D6E888B.EC3EAC9F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:48:11PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:48:11PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. ? FreeBSD is limited to using 2G of whatever you have in the Alpha. Which is a deficiency that has been debated a number of times, IIRC it needs bus space work etc. See the archives.. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message