Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:12:38 +0100 From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max RAM usage Message-ID: <3DF72BB6.9040700@porsche.de> References: <3DF71060.3060900@sanbi.ac.za>
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Hi Irvine, Irvine Short wrote: > Hi All > > We're thinking of buying a very big Intel box for scientific computing > here. > > Anyone have any opinions as to how FreeBSD would match up to an Intel > server with over 8GB RAM and 4CPUs? The particular machine we're looking > at will go up to 24GB RAM. > > I was under the impression that any 32 bit application could not in > itself address more than 4GB of data. Is this the case? > > Cheers, > this question is frequently asked. FreeBSD on ia32 does not support more than 4 GB of memory. On Alpha it is actually only 2 GB. The general problem with ia32 and > 4 GB RAM is, that Intel designed two different implementations to address up to 36 or 32 GB. Search the mailinglist archives for more specific information. I don't know if the support for ia32 for more than 4 GB RAM will come with 5.x - but I don't think so (at least for the first releases). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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