Re: Large memory with netbsd 4

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:04:30 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:32:54PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > NetBSD/i386 cannot handle more than 3 or 3.5GB (depending on the
> > PCI hole) and it handles more than 2GB badly(*).
> > 
> > (*) At least it had a lot of problems when NetBSD 3.0 was released.
> >     And I don't think so where ever fixed.
> 
> I am still not convinced that those aren't just bugs in busdma usage
> or 31bit only devices.  For that amd64 won't help.
> 
I run well with 3GB on amd64.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb