From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 18 19:00:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23198 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23191 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 02:00:46 GMT (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA01587; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:00:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id VAA19390; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:00:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980418210040.39656@mcs.net> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:00:40 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: dg@root.com Cc: Raul Zighelboim , "'David E. Cross'" , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 1 Gbyte of ram References: <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199804190151.SAA23035@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 06:51:59PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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