About ideal RAM capacity

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 17 18:00:49 UTC 2007


On 2/17/07, satimis <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm prepared to run FreeBSD-6.2 amd64 on an AMD Athlon64 x2 (dualcore)
> 512Kx2 3800 box as server.  What will be an ideal RAM capacity to be
> installed.  TIA

You can perform a binary search, benchmarking 2^n Mb of RAM
installed where n is 10..infinity. Athlon64 x2 motherboards
with support for over 64 Gb are hard to come by nowadays,
though.

Good luck!


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