Re: Large memory with netbsd 4

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello.  I've got a few I386 machines running NetBSD-3.x and NetBSD-4.x
with 4GB of RAM and they seem to work fine.  Ps(1) can't show rss sizes of
more than 2GB, but that appears to be a problem only to the ps(1) program
using a 32-bit signed number to represent the sizes rather than a 32-bit
unsigned number or a 64-bit number.  The pci hole is a problem, but 3GB of
RAM seems to be good.
-Brian
On Aug 6,  1:32pm, Matthias Scheler wrote:
} Subject: Re: Large memory with netbsd 4
} 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.
} 
} -- 
} Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/
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