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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:07:17 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:15 -0500
Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:
> I am currently running freebsd 6 (amd64) on dells servers that have 
> dual xeon processors in them. There is also 4 gigs of ram in them.
> 
> I need to reinstall cause I want to go to i386 version (too much 
> problems finding binairies compatible with amd64 with commercial vendors)
> 
> Could someone tell me:
> 
> 1- What is the cpu I need to specify in my config ?
> 
> 2- Do I need to run PAE to have access to all my 4 gigs of ram ?

Yes.  Without PAE, the kernel will only see 3.5G.

I don't know the answers to your other questions, however.

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Bill Moran
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