Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:00:40 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: dg@root.com Cc: Raul Zighelboim <rzig@verio.net>, "'David E. Cross'" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 1 Gbyte of ram Message-ID: <19980418210040.39656@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 06:51:59PM -0700 References: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB167F9DB4@kaori.communique.net> <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com>
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On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 06:51:59PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >Then I do not understand.. I have 3*256 megs on the system, the biios > >counts them, freebsd 2.2.6 counts them, then panics with 'memory out of > >range'... neither the install floppy nor the kernel.GENERIC were able to > >boot with 768megs. > > You'll need to be more specific than "memory out of range". It's possible > that bounce buffers are still killing installs on large machines. So, pull > out some memory, install FreeBSD, configure/build/install a kernel without > the BOUNCE_BUFFERS option, and then put the memory back in. > > >BTW will a news server qualify as a system with lots of TCP connections > >and the need of lots of mbufs ? > > Probably not. Most large news servers handle on the order of perhaps > 100-200 TCP connections. When I say "large number", I mean in the thousands. > > -DG A big web server will though :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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