Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread mickey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:14:05AM +, 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

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:44:48AM +, mickey wrote: PAE is slow and has hairy paws. I am glad that we have real amd64 machines now so we don't need it anymore. besides that what do you think amd64 runs? (: it uses the same pae as i386. and it is not any faster. learn what are

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread mickey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:43:25AM +, mickey wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:14:05AM +, mickey wrote: myself in need to build some big, phat machines (8GByte, or even 16GByte RAM) for a customer that

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread mickey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:53:50AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:44:48AM +, mickey wrote: PAE is slow and has hairy paws. I am glad that we have real amd64 machines now so we don't need it anymore. besides that what do you think amd64

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:22AM +, mickey wrote: or what you think loading 36bit physaddr is slower than loading 48bits? I think that loading 48-bits in one step is faster than loading 36-bit in two. It is also a matter of experience that amd64 memory access is way faster than

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread nicodache
You don't get the problem, at least if you run a decent operating system, 'cause I know some people having problem using more than 4 Gig of ram, even with AMD64 or EM64T hardware, and (hum) Vista. Just to say the arch does not make everything, a good software is also needed. plus, X86_64 gets rid

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:15:27AM +, mickey wrote: I think that loading 48-bits in one step is faster than loading 36-bit in two. It is also a matter of experience that amd64 memory access is way faster than i386 with PAE. why do you think that tlb loader cannot load 64bits in

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread mickey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:13:55PM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:22AM +, mickey wrote: or what you think loading 36bit physaddr is slower than loading 48bits? I think that loading 48-bits in one step is faster than loading 36-bit in two. It is

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Christoph Egger
On Monday 08 October 2007 12:02:22 mickey wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:53:50AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: Salut, On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:44:48AM +, mickey wrote: PAE is slow and has hairy paws. I am glad that we have real amd64 machines now so we don't need it

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Ouellet
OK guys, Instead of fighting about using, or not using it, or i386 being obsolete, PAE not being good, or slow, etc. I for one would be very happy if we can support more then 4GB of memory on it and I would be more then happy to test it as I now have machine that actually have more then 4GB

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Christoph Egger 8-Oct-07 12:54 in legacy mode, there is i386 that support 4KB and 4MB page-sizes and use 2-level pagetables. in legacy mode, there is i386 PAE that support 4KB and 2MB page-sizes and use 3-level pagetables. in long mode, there is amd64 that support 4KB, 2MB and 1GB

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Timo Schoeler wrote: AMD64 or EM64T machine with 8GB+ of RAM (or $1700 to buy one) needed in Edmonton. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having the hardware will help some. I've got access to some larger hardware here at the university, and have sent out the large mem diff for amd64 machines.