Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

[Pete French]

> Architecturally, it's a nasty kludge. As far as stability on FreeBSD is
> concerned, my only machine under PAE with 4 GB RAM (without PAE it would
> use a bit over 3 GB) is very solid on 6-STABLE.

To the original poster - does a PAE kernel actually boot on your
16 gig machines ? My problem was that I had tested PAE of 4 gig
machines (to avoid the "bit over 3" problem) but when it came down
to 16 gig on the Xeons then it wouldnt actually boot :-(

-pete.