On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:13:36AM -0300, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote: > Marco Peereboom wrote: >> bad advice. Don't do it, there is a reason it isn't disabled. >> >> send oga some beer for c2k10 instead he might feel more pressure that >> way :-) >> >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:01:58AM +0100, Peter Kay (Syllopsium) wrote: >> >>>> From: "Siju George" <sgeorge...@gmail.com> >>>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Peter Kay (Syllopsium) >>>> <syllops...@syllopsium.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> From: "Siju George" <sgeorge...@gmail.com> >>>>>> but OpenBSD 4.7/amd64 SMP detects only 3 GB. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there anything more I should do to get the other 1 GB of RAM >>>>>> recognized by the System? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> This is normal. Large memory support is not yet included in >>>>> OpenBSD by default for amd64. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Is there anything I can do to get this by recompiling the kernel >>>> or something? >>>> >>> Yes and no; google for 'bigmem' in the misc list for marc.info. You >>> have to edit >>> a source file and recompile the kernel. >>> >>> However, it won't work (to be precise, it will probably crash on >>> boot, or possibly >>> afterwards) unless you have an IOMMU, and most Intel systems don't. >>> >>> OpenBSD doesn't support the AGP/PCI-e GART as an IOMMU, and I'm not sure >>> if it supports VT-d platforms (which you probably aren't running >>> anyway). The >>> only option here is AMD. >>> >>> Until the devs tell us it's working, it's not worth persevering with. >>> >>> PK > Forgive me for the noob question (i'm a newbie at openbsd), but if i > want to build, for example, a large squid cache using openbsd, in a > server with BIIIG ram (12gb+), i will no be able to use the full memory > space? is this what you guys are saying?
That is correct. 12G of ram for web cache? Why not a better disk instead?
