On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> 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.
you do not need it perhaps.
otherwise there has been lots of talkers for it on i386.
cu
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paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
