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 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]