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Date:      Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:09:55 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: how much memory does the ia64 port support?
Message-ID:  <20011006170955.B78250@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011006180443.A8223@panzer.kdm.org>; from ken@kdm.org on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:04:43PM -0600
References:  <20011006173427.A7880@panzer.kdm.org> <20011006170135.A78250@elvis.mu.org> <20011006180443.A8223@panzer.kdm.org>

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Kenneth D. Merry (ken@kdm.org) wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 17:01:35 -0700, Paul Saab wrote:
> > Kenneth D. Merry (ken@kdm.org) wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just out of curiosity, how much memory does the ia64 port support?
> > 
> > We all have machines with 1GB of ram right now.  I have asked to get
> > atleast one (hopefully all) machine which > 4GB for testing.
> 
> The Compaq Blazer we've got at work has 6GB at the moment, and can be
> upped to 8GB if we put the rest of the memory back in.  (One stick might be
> in use, so it may only be possible to go back up to 7GB.)

Cool.. I'm sure we can get a few of them up above 4GB. :)

> If I get the time (not likely :( ), maybe I can try it out.
> 
> > I've also requested that all of our machines get a second CPU when we
> > get them upgraded in the coming weeks to the latest stepping.
> 
> Ahh, cool.  What sort of machines do y'all have?

I dont remember the exact name of them, but they are Intel workstation
machines which Intel gave to developers during the initial development
of the ia64.  Intel has donated 3 of these so far and there is one more
on the way which we'll put up in the cluster once its stable enough.

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