max Gb of phys. memory?

[Toll, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David O'Brien
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:17 AM
> To: Danny Braniss
> Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: max Gb of phys. memory?
> 
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:04:25AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > 	I need to set up a box with 'allot' of phys. memory. so far im 
> > finding that the amount of memory is per cpu, ie: 8Gb per cpu
> 
> You have 4 or 8 DIMM sockets per CPU, depending on the motherboard.
> That is the only limit pertaining to the CPU.  Some 
> motherboards can handle 4GB DIMM's, others 2GB DIMM's, yet 
> others only 1GB DIMM's.
> 
> --
> -- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
> _______________________________________________


One of the expensive Tyan boards I looked at supported 16Gb Ram, so I can safely
assume that the AMD-64 version will use all of this memeory?  (8 DIMM slots x
2Gb ea)

I'm assuming the limit would be hardware limited as FreeBSD-AMD64 should support
128Gb Ram??


As for my FreeBSD box, {which I only got some of the components in today!} it
will only have 1Gb for starters.
(see attached) Boy that Kingston Registered ECC DDR400 1Gb kit was fine looking,
black heat sync's and gold plated contacts. It was like $450 USD for the 1Gb
Kit, but <sigh> it was in stock, and I didn't want to go to the ends of the
earth to skimp...  The last thing I wanted to worry about was poor memory
quality.

Eric