From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 17: 5:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E21F37BA22 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7H035e87241; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Joel Bjork Cc: Jeff Soule , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Max Memory question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joel Bjork mumbled: > If I recall correctly the 4GB memory limit is due to the x86 structure. There > is some info on this on the cdrom.com homepage but I can't find it. Basically > it said that they were thinking of moving to Alpha architecture to be able to > handle more requests. I thought that I heard somewhere that the Intel Xeon processors supported 36-bit memory addressing... thus upping it's limit to 32GB. Could anyone confirm this? // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message