From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 2 22:19:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C2137B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.104.136.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.104.136]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21148; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B6A3447.BCA49795@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:19:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Charles Randall , craig , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Rik van Riel wrote: > > >I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, > > >it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one > > >motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. > > > > The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM. > > > > http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/products/model_pedge_pedge_6400.htm > > It's all a trick, they don't really exist. After all, > why would people ever shell out the money for one of > these useless beasts that won't be running until ia64 > has gotten cheaper than these machines ? I can buy an IA64 box for US$7000; it can address much more memory than this thing, and the overall cost is probably less. In IA32 mode, it can operate with the PAE, so you can keep your crufty "32 bit using 36 bit" around, too, if you are too lazy to do the port. This is seeming more and more like a boondoggle to get FreeBSD to waste its time slowing its default behaviour down so that some small number of incredibly bizarre applications can pretend their address space is bigger than it really is... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message