From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 7 7:44:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.102.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F535156D7 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 07:44:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from JKING ([134.132.75.164]) by sstar.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52) id 3888400; Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:44:17 -0600 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000107094134.00a74c90@mail.sstar.com> X-Sender: king@mail.sstar.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:44:17 -0600 To: De la Cruz Lugo Eric , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jim King Subject: Re: HARDWARE.TXT specific for Alpha? In-Reply-To: References: <14453.62608.509835.123219@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:32 AM 1/7/2000 -0600, De la Cruz Lugo Eric wrote: >On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > De la Cruz Lugo Eric writes: > > > By the way, some one have information about the memory and storage > limits > > > for FreeBSD on Alpha?, max memory, max file size, thanks in advance. > > > > Max memory currently varies by platform. On most machines it is 1GB > > and on newer 21264 machines it is 2GB. > > > > I'll let somebody else address max file size. I've only gone as high > > as a few 10s of GB myself, but I think the limits should be much higher. > > > > Drew > >Thanks for the info, in X86 Architecture the RAM max size is 4 GB (check >ftp.cdrom configuration :), i thinked that in Alpha should be bigger. > >i guess im wrong about that :) On x86 the maximum memory is also specific to the PC model. e.g. my old Pentium won't accept more than 128 MB; my current Pentium II won't accept more than 768 MB. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message