FreeBSD Looking for People with Lots of RAM

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."

Comments

Sure, no problem

[Anonymous Coward]

just send me the RAM, and I'll test it for you!

almost FP

[Anonymous Coward]

i need more RAM damn it!!!!

all over it

[gobbligook]

right on, I am all over it! looking forward to the day when ram is as cheep as hard disk space.

if i put all of my computers together

[stuph]

then i'd be far, far closer... if only i had.. well.. any money at all

yeah sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll get right on that.....

Did something get swept under the rug?

[Anonymous Coward]

Very strange happening on Fox News Tues night about 8:30 PM Pacific time. The issue was if Saddam was dead or still on the run. Fox ran a split screen with the clean up of the bombing of the resturant where they thought Saddam was. On the other split they were showing the Al-J video of Saddam greeting the people in the streets of Baghdad from last weekend. In this video it shows a man running interference / crowd control for Saddam. This guy was in civies, husky, with wire rim glasses and receeding hairline.

Unequivocally this same guy was shown on the Al- J video looking on at the clean up of the resturant bombing. No if ands or buts the same guy IMHO. I think it was Shep hosting at the time, may have been Rita. Fox comes back from break, and Shep / Rita reads off a viewers comment as to wheather the guy was CIA, or actually Saddams body guard. Seemed like a huge link one way or another. Never saw another comment since. Leads me to believe that possibly he was CIA ???????????

Re:Did something get swept under the rug?

[Anonymous Coward]

Rita Cosby is an A1 piece of ass.

Sounds like a job for...

[Anonymous Coward]

Val Venis.

Helllooooooooooooo ladies! *heh heh heh*

You know something ladies, the Big Valboski has solved the Y2K problem. You've got the software, I've got the hardware, and all the RAM RAM RAM.

Re:Hey FreeBSD hackers.......

[Billly Gates]

"FreeBSD/i386 5.0-RELEASE Release Notes: Processor/Motherboard Support [freebsd.org]:

SMP support has been largely reworked, incorporating code from BSD/OS 5.0. One of the main features of SMPng (``SMP Next Generation'') is to allow more processes to run in kernel, without the need for spin locks that can dramatically reduce the efficiency of multiple processors. Interrupt handlers now have contexts associated with them that allow them to be blocked, which reduces the need to lock out interrupts. " ...Stop stealing idea's from SCO.

off topic.

[leuk_he]

Unless it is a x86 machine this is off topic.

Or you are just bragging, or you just dont understand why it only has a 60 GB HD. That HD is only for booting the machine(like an expensive floppy driv)e, For the real storeage you probably alredy have an san that containt all your terabytes of data.

I think this machine bas an powerpc cpu that alreay can run in 64 bit mode and adrress some terbyte of data.

To get more on topic....

if you had a beowulf cluster of these......Then you had bragging points.