On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:29:17AM -0500, jon butchar wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have a single-CPU Xeon-based system running FreeBSD's amd64,
> along with other computers running various OSs to use and look
> after.
>
> Due to the quality of OpenBSD, I switched all my other computers
> to OpenBSD and <gasp> even ordered a CD set.
>
> However, this Xeon system is used for heavy numbercrunching; R
> routinely gobbles up to 4.5 GB memory. My question is whether
> OpenBSD will allow this memory allocation. This is work-related
> stuff so I'm hesitant to try without some input.
The new PAE stuff will allow you to do that.
> Please forgive me if the answer is well-known. I spent an hour
> Googling but didn't come up with much, especially for 3.9.
3.9, on the other hand, does not have PAE. From what I understand, it is
enabled in (some) -current kernels.
Joachim
