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Ganbold wrote:
> At 04:19 AM 11/1/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>    - A problem with extremely large memory allocations on amd64 was 
>> fixed.
> 
> 
> Did RC2 fix the problem related to ips driver? Is it worth to try RC2 on 
> amd64 with 8GB machine?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Ganbold
> 
> 

No.  Fixing it requires more work than can be done during the final
stages of a release.

Scott