In article <200312191211.46192.darcy@NetBSD.org>,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>I installed 8GB into an i386 system and rant 1.6.1 on it.  The dmesg looks 
>like this:
>
>NetBSD 1.6.1 (VAULTS) #0: Mon Apr 28 10:52:43 EDT 2003
>    door@greenroom.givex.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/VAULTS
>cpu0: Intel Pentium 4 (686-class), 2399.45 MHz
>cpu0: D-cache 8 KB 64b/line 4-way
>cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64b/line 8-way
>cpu0: features 
>ffffffffbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR
>>
>cpu0: features ffffffffbfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,FGPAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
>cpu0: features ffffffffbfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,B31>
>total memory = 3967 MB
>avail memory = 3684 MB
>using 6144 buffers containing 198 MB of memory
>
>Can NetBSD use the whole 8GB?

If you compile a kernel with large page support [I am not sure if that
was part of 1.6]. Of course each process will still be limited to < 4GB.

christos