On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm deploying a new server with FreeBSD 4.10-Release and I'll need a > quite big piece of memory. > I was thinking of installing 1 Gb of RAM plus another Gigabytes of > swap. > I seems to remember some limit / problem when RAM + swap go over 2 or > 4 Gbytes total, is this true ? > (without PAE or similar things, it's a "normal" P4 machine)
There have been problems when *physical* RAM is above 2GB (and on a P4 without PAE enabled it is not possible to go above 4GB) but 1GB RAM + a few GB swap should not be any problem. > > I would avoid to tweak kernel parameters, if possible, like KVA pages > and similar things I don't know ;) Then don't go above 2GB RAM. To make that work I think you need to do exactly what ypu want to avoid. > > Anyone with similar experiences could, please, remember me actual > limits ? > > Many thanks in advance! -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
