RE: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relativeadvantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
of the relativeadvantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)) On 27/04/07, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't devote time and resources into being renaissance people. Human intelligence is hardly limited in that regard. While I do not subscribe to the Colin Wilson

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relativeadvantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:10:16AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The true value of Wikipedia is that it can deal with controversial subjects. ... on the other hand, for some instances it doesn't _deal_ with controversial subjects, but only reflects the most common opinion. Currently(*) the

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 27/04/07, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't devote time and resources into being renaissance people. Human intelligence is hardly limited in that regard. While I do not subscribe to the Colin Wilson theory, the vast majority of people contain so little information it is

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ivan Voras wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Does this test demonstrate usage of memory over 4G? It's my understanding that PAE starts to suffer when it has to look at the memory over 4G (which is the problem it's intended to solve) If your entire test fits in under 4G, you're not seeing

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Lee Capps
: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)) Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
Dickey; Bill Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)) Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources while none of you checked your sources ... Muhahaha ... In any event, it's been a

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources while none of you checked your sources

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you had provided the guy's Wikipedia account, we'd be able to check *your* sources -- wouldn't we? As long as you don't tell us the necessary information for checking up on it,

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: Does this test demonstrate usage of memory over 4G? It's my understanding that PAE starts to suffer when it has to look at the memory over 4G (which is the problem it's intended to solve) If your entire test fits in under 4G, you're not seeing the worst of it. At

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-25 Thread Albert Shih
Le 24/04/2007 à 11:39:46-0700, Don O'Neil a écrit Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option... When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message: +++ cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I-

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-25 Thread RW
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:09 -0700 Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, ... What if I want to install more than 4GB? This mobo supports up to 16 GB... Do I need to go to the AMD64 platform to get 4GB? AFAIK all the reasons for staying 32-bit

Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: Does this test demonstrate usage of memory over 4G? It's my understanding that PAE starts to suffer when it has to look at the memory over 4G (which is the problem it's intended to solve) If your entire test

Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: (of course, everyone knows that Wikipedia is the ultimate source of information and is infallible, right?) hardly. I'd expect that most intelligent readers would have encountered at least one wikipedia article which is inaccurate.

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:09 -0700 Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, ... What if I want to install more than 4GB? This mobo supports up to 16 GB... Do I need to go to the AMD64 platform to get

Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: (of course, everyone knows that Wikipedia is the ultimate source of information and is infallible, right?) hardly. I'd expect that most intelligent readers would have encountered

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Lee Capps
On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research assignment that involved that

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research assignment that involved that information. Apparently the number of

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I don't suppose you know the name of his Wikipedia account, or his legal name. . . . yawn.

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I don't

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:29:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I don't suppose you know the

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this particular brand of intellectually lazy person to realize that about the printed page,

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 21:21:47 Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this particular brand of

RE: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?)) Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don O'Neil Sent: 24 avril 2007 13:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory 3.5GB not used? I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Don O'Neil wrote: Any reason the extra 1/2 GB isn't showing up or usable? Is there something I need to specify in the kernel to get to the other 1/2 GB? What if I want to install more than 4GB? This mobo supports up to 16 GB... Do I need to go to the AMD64 platform to get 4GB? You need a PAE

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Andy Greenwood
. -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? On 4/24/07, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option... When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message: +++ cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? On 4/24/07, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option... When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message: +++ cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
or WITHOUT_MODULES options to make.conf. man 5 make.conf for more details. -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
, 2007 11:55 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: 'Andy Greenwood'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system with 4GB memory, doing the same similar behavior. but, on top of not using the last few hundred megs of ram, even the POST shows like 3.6 or 3.7GB of ram. is PAE still a solution for my case? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dmesg | grep memory real memory =

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? Not all modules work with PAE. Read the example PAE kernel

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? Not