Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-15 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
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 h

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-15 Thread Andy Hilker
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.

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-15 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:46:59AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. > >They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, > >and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. > > > >What's the curren

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Atanas
Oliver Fromme said the following on 03/14/06 08:30: Will FreeBSD/i386 6-stable run on a 4 GB machine out of the box? Do I have to apply special tuning (kernel config or sysctl or whatever)? Using PAE shouldn't be necessary, I assume. All it depends is what size of memory address space the mot

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Ivan Kolosovskiy wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. :[ ]. Why so?! How make FreeBSD to use 4GB? it is possible? Sure, as the rest of my email said. man pae Eric -- --

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Ivan Kolosovskiy
Eric Anderson wrote: The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. :[ ]. Why so?! How make FreeBSD to use 4GB? it is possible? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Oliver Fromme wrote: Hi, I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. What's the current status of running with that amount of memory? I'm not completely up to date in th

FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. What's the current status of running with that amount of memory? I'm not completely up to date in that regard, and searchin