Rebuild instructions for amd64 systems

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 13:12:03 UTC 2009


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> then, add the following line below all other 'options' lines:
> options     PAE             # large memory (>4G) support
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> then, find and comment out these two lines to avoid a conflict with PAE:
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> device adv              # Advansys SCSI adapters
> device  adw             # Advansys wide SCSI adapter
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This is unnecessary and bad.  pae should be used on i386 for large memory
support, amd64 in some ways exists so you don't have to run pae which is a
considerable performance hit.  I'm surprised that actually works.

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Adam Vande More


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