>32GB memory with Xeon ?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:45:40 -0700
"Coleman Kane" <zombyfork at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/26/06, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:08:36 +0900
> > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> >
> > > At Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:44:40 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:07:58 +0900
> > > > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any limit on the amount of memory that can be used
> > > > > with FreeBSD 6.x/amd64 ?  I found that FreeBSD/ia64
> > > > > currently has 2GB limit.  I was wondering how amd64 is like.
>
[snip]
> Hey all,
> 
> When I first looked into the amd64 platform I did research and made sure to
> stay far from the nForce offerings that were around. I found a laptop with a
> VIA chipset that has been pretty good to me, and was pretty decently
> supported back in the early days of amd64 support in FreeBSD.
> 
> From what I can tell, the nForce offerings are still troublesome but there
> are many patches to work-around their problems. The VIA offerings seem to be
> much more compatible.
> 
> --
> Coleman Kane
> 

Be interesting to see what shakes out on the chipset front for AMD now
that they've bought ATI.  I wonder if they'll go back to making their
own like the good ol' 8131/8311 days...

-- 

Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty 
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