On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:51:04PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just got a new toy^H^H^Hdesktop system.  I'm looking for advice on
> selecting the best NetBSD version for a dual-core Opteron machine.
> This thing has 4 GB of RAM - do I need a 64-bit NetBSD version (amd64?)
> to be able to use all RAM?

 	I have a couple of 4GB amd64 boxes running NetBSD/i386, and while
 	you do not get all of the 4GB, you do get most of it:

 		total memory = 3967 MB
 		avail memory = 3875 MB

 	note, if you set your BIOS values 'unhelpfully' you can end up
 	with quite a bit less - identical hardware can give:

 		total memory = 3583 MB
 	        avail memory = 3499 MB



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