Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:47:51 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010042346580.94692-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20001003222814.A2562@freebie.demon.nl>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:41:34PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:28:46PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > What is the currently max supported memory size on Alpha? 2Gb maybe? > > > > > > > Or will 4Gb also be OK? > ... > > > I have 3 8400s to play with- 2 with 2GB each. > > > > What I can do is to swipe one system's boards and put it in the one running > > FreeBSD.. but time, time time... > > Do you by any chance know of a way to instruct the TLaser SRM to pretend it > has less memory than is physically installed? I don't want to swap boards to > often, the TLaser backplane is a bit delicate. You could hack alpha_init() where it goes through the memory clusters and stop it from using any cluster which starts too high. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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