memory limits

[Matthew Dillon]

:Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
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:> 
:> Do we have PAE? 
:PAE would be nice :) I have 5 gig ram Opteron machine to play/work with :)
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:>If not, can a 32 bit processor even use 2+4GB? I recall 
:> that some year(s) ago, people were adviced not to use more than 4GB 
:> totall memory on FreeBSD. Could be wrong, though.
:BTX problems probably. If you can go further, kernel will just ignore 
:things over 4gigs.
:
:Toma¾

    I'm not planning on adding PAE for 32 bit kernels, but we certainly
    are planning to do a 64 bit port (aka opteron/amd64) and that will
    of course not have any of the limitations of a 32 bit address space.

    It's going to be at least ~6 months, though, at a guess.  I am doing
    the VFS work first.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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