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Subject: Re: more than 2gb of memory
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On Thursday 03 April 2008, Victor M. Blood wrote:
> On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > with ulimit
> >
> > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit.
> > on amd64 - essentially no limit
>
> ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Intel Xeon.

Depending on the type of Xeon, the use of amd64 _is_ possible. Does it support 
EMT64? If that is the case, it should have a line saying "AMD Features = 
<bla,LM,bla>" in your dmesg which means the use of FreeBSD-amd64 is 
supported.

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Pieter de Goeje