From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 4 15:48: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB84737B66E for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13gxKQ-000HXa-0Y; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:47:58 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14164; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:54:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:47:51 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Matthew Jacob , FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <20001003222814.A2562@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:41:34PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:28:46PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > What is the currently max supported memory size on Alpha? 2Gb maybe? > > > > > > > Or will 4Gb also be OK? > ... > > > I have 3 8400s to play with- 2 with 2GB each. > > > > What I can do is to swipe one system's boards and put it in the one running > > FreeBSD.. but time, time time... > > Do you by any chance know of a way to instruct the TLaser SRM to pretend it > has less memory than is physically installed? I don't want to swap boards to > often, the TLaser backplane is a bit delicate. You could hack alpha_init() where it goes through the memory clusters and stop it from using any cluster which starts too high. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message