Subject: Re: large memory machines - current status?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/2006 20:28:25
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:24:36PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I just got a new machine (Intel 915 chipset, 4 GB RAM) and am
> intending to set it up for Xen.  But, I wondered if the large
> memory/NKMEMPAGES issue would cause trouble.
> 
> So, following what I've read on the lists, I edited
> sys/arch/i386/include/param.h and changed NKEMPAGES to 1 GB

What led you to believe that this was a reasonable thing to do for an
i386 kernel?