From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 04:22:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6867116A4CE; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 04:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.jrv.org (adsl-70-243-84-13.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [70.243.84.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F5D43D48; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 04:22:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@jrv.org) Received: from [192.168.3.156] (zippy.housenet.jrv [192.168.3.156]) by mail.jrv.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j324Mkgf051585; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:22:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from james@jrv.org) Message-ID: <424E1E15.1040503@jrv.org> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:22:45 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no) Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:22:47 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS Master@-FAR >motherboard I find it very unstable running with 8 >GB memory, though 4 GB are not a problem. > I installed 5.4 beta 1 amd64 on a 8 GB Tyan Thunder K8W with two 244 CPUs. It's been looping on buildworld for about 60 hours, no problems.