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FreeBSD Looking for People with Lots of RAM

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-just-for-ram-drives-anymore dept.

drdink writes "A few weeks ago, PAE (Physical Address Extension) support was added to FreeBSD 5-CURRENT. This allows memory above 4GB to be used normally by the kernel and userland on the x86 platform. Jake Burkholder, the man behind PAE, is now looking for users to help him test this new feature. In his message to the freebsd-current mailing list, Jake describes the current caveats to PAE and also says 'We'd like this feature to be solid for 5.1-RELEASE, so I'm hoping there are people out there with systems with more than 4G of ram that are willing to test it.' This, along with other features make FreeBSD 5-STABLE look very promising."

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  1. Re:64 + 128 + 256 + 16 + 224 + 64 + 512k.... by AgentPhunk · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've got 8 gigs of RAM in my old 286 running a hacked version of FreeDOS, so this isn't really news

    Umm, that'd be 8 MEGs you got in there, Sparky.

    I'll bet it has a 5.25 TB floppy drive, and a 20" LCD green-screen monitor.

  2. This just in... by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):

    "BSD isn't dead! The infidel Linux coaliation will soon pay the price for descriating BSD!"

    More at 11.

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  3. Re:Wow! by Anonymous+Struct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jesus... I could even put the swap space ON THE RAMDISK! Think about how fast that'd be!

  4. Re:Sweet! by lpontiac · · Score: 4, Funny
    is support for more than 4GB of memory a first for 32-bit x86 operating systems?

    No. The Linux 2.4.x kernel has it [com.com], and Unixware 7.1.3 has it [sco.com]

    So the Linux kernel's support was obviously stolen from SCO, and therefore doesn't count.

  5. Re:Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just load up a Java application... Voila!

  6. Jesus Tap-dancing Christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about a fucking bloated OS!? 4 gigs of RAM? Not even XP Pro requires that much memory!

  7. Re:Wow! by Anonymous+Struct · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess I need to work on my delivery... :)

  8. What happens if you have 6 Gigabytes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looking at a full rack of DELL PowerEdge 2650s Dual Proc 2.8Ghz w/ 6 gigs of Ram and smiling. But they are already running Windows 2003 Enterprise Server. I wonder if the boss will let me take one of these $10,000 babies offline...YEA I WISH!

  9. Re:My current setup (12GB RAM) by FyRE666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I presume you're one of the Doom 3 beta testers then?

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