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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.inetnebr.com!news.enteract.com!newsfeed.enteract.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!gatech!news-relay.ncren.net!nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!news From: User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Are there any memory limits on older 386/486 motherboards with FreeBSD??? Date: 18 Jul 1997 14:58:36 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5qo0as$284@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970527; i386 FreeBSD 3.0-970618-SNAP] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44679 Except for my toy home box, I now have a fleet of fine FreeBSD boxes up in my office. Kudos to the FreeBSD folks. I have run many lowendian flavors of PC-ish *nix and must say that FreeBSD is the best of the lot in my hands. Anyway, off to a particular fine point...... I have the chance to put 4 meg simms in my motherboards (486-33/66mhz boards). That will give me 32 megs in each rather than the current 8 megs of 1 meg simms in each. My question is --- are there any 16mb or other such memory limits in the current versions of FreeBSD? I was not thinking that there was, but do remember some versions of other *nices having problems at the 16mb barrier on some motherboards. My boards are GA-486VT Taiwan clone shop boards that the books on them say will take 256K/1meg/4meg simms. With 8 slots and 4 meg simms that would give me a comfy 32mb of ram to work with. I would not want to load up 32mb and only be able to use 16mb. Any comments/pointers/suggestions appreciated. Thanks Bob Keys rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu (a fine little FreeBSD box!).