Re: Large memory with netbsd 4

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:13:01PM +0200, juanito wrote:
> - HP DC7800
> - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz
> - 4GB Memory
> - 3 HITACHI IBM 320GB (ccd)
> - 1 HITACHI IBM 1TB
[...]
> So i'm using netbsd-4 with i386.

NetBSD/i386 cannot handle more than 3 or 3.5GB (depending on the
PCI hole) and it handles more than 2GB badly(*).

I would recommend to run NetBSD/amd64.

        Kind regards

(*) At least it had a lot of problems when NetBSD 3.0 was released.
    And I don't think so where ever fixed.

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/