freebsd 4.8 max supported RAM

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Ann Lee" <yokean1 at gmail.com> writes:
> yes, it's old but stable. so far so good as this running in my production with
> anti-spam email gateway filtering installed more than 2 years. im thinking for
> an upgrade the RAM and add 1 more CPU processor in. maybe upgrade the freebsd
> version to 5.3 version and above.

You probably don't want FreeBSD 5, and certainly not 5.3.  Try 6.2 instead.

> do i still need to build the custom kernel for 5.3? do u hv the file? can send
> me the instruction? is 5.3 stable enought to support 2 X Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz
> processor and 4GB RAM. i seen many forums that some only can detect 3GB RAM
> instead of 4GB RAM.

6.2 should work right out of the box.

DES
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