How much memory?

[adam.3.brown at bt.com]

Thanks for the information everyone, just to let you know I was running 3.4
on a dual PIII Xeon with 2.25GB RAM (a proliant 6500). Unfortunately this
was not quite fast enough (I'm doing some network simulations, ns2) so an
upgrade is needed. It looks like a quad Xeon(expandable to 8 processor)
PowerEdge 8450 with 4GB RAM to start with. If FreeBSD can't handle any more
than this then I will just go for a cheaper server and save some money as I
wont be able to expand it anyway.

Cheers again

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Rabson [mailto:dfr at nlsystems.com]
Sent: 01 June 2000 11:14
To: Brian Somers
Cc: paul at xciv.org; freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org;
brian at hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject: Re: How much memory? 


On Wed, 31 May 2000, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Memory ISTR a limit of 1GB, but I know that ftp.cdrom.com has 4GB
> > in it but I'm not sure if that is in a release branch, -current or
> > some patches floating around.
> 
> I believe 4Gb is correct - that caused breakage in BSDi 
> compatibility....

Which was fixed soon after. I'm not sure of the #cpu limit but I think
with the existing SMP model, more than about 4 is a waste of
time.  FreeBSD 5.0 will have much better SMP support and should scale to
larger systems.

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