12GB RAM with DfBSD?

Emiel Kollof coolvibe at hackerheaven.org
Wed Sep 7 02:35:50 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 07 September 2005 11:22, Filip Wuytack wrote:
> Hi all,
> But I was wondering before I start playing around if DF can address the full  
> 12GB at all in it's current  state? Or do I have to use any tricks? If i 
> would get it run, I'm happy to do any benchmarks or stress tests with df if 
> there's an interest... 

AFAICR, DragonFly doesn't do PAE, so more than 4 GB won't be addressable. I 
don't know of any plans to implement PAE though. It's kind of a bitch to do 
for IA32. It also doesn't do 64-bit long mode yet, but if we did, 12GB would 
be perfectly okay :)

Cheers,
Emiel
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