Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:06:26 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jeff MacDonald <bignose@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram Message-ID: <200701111906.26196.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <f17daf040701110555w5a74e802pae628c62f4ac405b@mail.gmail.com> References: <f17daf040701101347r4fa8f639u2421bff95a47f61@mail.gmail.com> <20070111084454.0ba4c327.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <f17daf040701110555w5a74e802pae628c62f4ac405b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:55, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > > Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :) > > > > > > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs > > > without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or > > > something else ? > > > > One of those two. You sure you didn't install a 64-bit version > > of Ubuntu? > > Fairly sure :) > > > > Aside, I will read up on PAE. I'll read up about 64 bit as > > > well, I've been hesitant to make the jump only cause any word > > > of mouth i've heard said that it's not ready for production. > > > Maybe that's off base, it's only what "i've heard" > > > > We're deploying a lot of 64 bit stuff around here. Our > > experience has been that the OS is as solid on amd64 as it is on > > i386. Server applications are the same. There are, however, a > > lot of desktop applications that are still flaky on 64-bit -- > > mostly non-mainstream ones. We got in a crunch and had to > > reinstall a workstation back to i386 because of it, or I would > > have filed some bug reports. > > Yeah, that's likly true what you say about server vs desktop. I'm > going to slap a 64 bit copy on now and see how it does. > > Jeff. For what it's worth I've been running 6.1-R AMD64 on a PE 1950 very successfully as a web/mysql/mail/dns server. If you have the broadcom or intel NICs you're going to want to use the drivers from 6-STABLE or 6.2-RC2. Other than that it's been relatively painless. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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