On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Andy Hilker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You (Gerhard Schmidt) wrote:
> > > The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. I believe you
> > > would either need to use the PAE kernel option, or use the 64bit version
> > > of FreeBSD on a corresponding 64bit hardware.
> >
> > I Have a i386 server running with 4Gig of ram without PAE. It's running
> > with 5-STABLE. Has this changed in 6.0.
>
> No. It depends on your hardware how much memory is really available.
> But there is no limit at 3GB in general.
>
> Do you use special options (KVA space etc.) in kernel-config
> or make.conf to have a stable system?
I have the following options in the kernel
# Fix for the Memory problems
options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE="4"
options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(1024*1024*1024)"
options KVA_PAGES=512
It runs stable for 4 Years now. Some problem when hyperthreading is enabled,
but without hyperthreading it's stable sofar.
Bye
Estartu
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