Salut,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:14:05AM +0000, mickey wrote:
> > myself in need to build some big, phat machines (8GByte, or even
> > 16GByte RAM) for a customer that run OpenBSD *and* having seen (again) a
> > discussion on 'how much RAM is supported' [0] I decided to
>
> PAE support has already been hacked up.
> apparently it was backed out for some obscure stability problems
> on certain amd machines.
>
> and this is (as i see it) fault exactly of these people who wants
> this support since when it was asked for the diff received
> ZERO testing for large memory use from the list.
>
> i will repost it again (w/ weak hope) that somebody bothers
> to actually test or look at it...

PAE is slow and has hairy paws. I am glad that we have real amd64 machines
now so we don't need it anymore.

                                Tonnerre

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