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Subject: FAQ update for memory limits
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>Number:         13403
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       FAQ update for memory limits
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 26 18:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sat Sep 25 17:02:42 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sat Sep 25 17:02:53 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	The FAQ entry for memory limits should be updated. I've pieced
	together the following from various discussions that have
	occurred on the various mailing lists.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	

--- en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml.orig	Thu Aug 26 21:34:26 1999
+++ en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml	Thu Aug 26 21:34:57 1999
@@ -1536,10 +1536,13 @@
 <qandaentry><question>
 <para>What are the limits for memory?</para></question><answer>
 
-<para>For memory, the (theoretical) limit is 4 gigabytes.  One gigabyte
-has been tested; you generally can't buy i386 PCs that can support
-much more than that.</para>
-  
+<para>For memory, the limit is 4 gigabytes. This configuration has
+been tested <ulink URL="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/configuration">.
+If you plan to install this much memory into a machine, you need to
+be careful. You'll probably want to use ECC memory and to reduce
+capacitive loading use 9 chip memory modules vice 18 chip memory
+modules.</para>
+
 </answer></qandaentry>
 
 <qandaentry><question>

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nik 
State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 25 17:02:42 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks. 
>Unformatted:
